The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-08-09
FOOD FOR THOUGHT,

| Let pleasure ne ever so innocent, tue
excess is always criminal.-St. EremORd.
An excuse is worse and more terrible
than a lie, for an excuse is lie guarded.
Pope.
lie that speaks the truth will find
himself in sufficiently dramatic situa-
tions.-NOrth.
Take things as they are and make the
best of them. That is the only true and
practical philosophy.
Courage, the commonest Of the vlr-
tues, obtains more applause than discre-
tion, the rarest of them.
Faith and the cross are inseparable.
The cross Is the shrine of faith, aud faith
is the light of the cross.
Politeness is like an air cushion, there
may be nothing solid in it, but it eases
the jolts of the world wonderfully.
Failure after long perseverance is
much grander than never TO have a
striving good enough to be called a
! failure.
The greater the difficulty, the more
glory In surmounting il; skilful pilots
gain their reputation from storms aud
tempests.
The grave-an ugly hole In the
ground which lovers and poets wish
they were in, but take uncommon pains
to keep out of.
To prize ourselves by what we have,
and not by what we are, is to estimate
the value of the pearl by the golden
frame which contains 1t.
To worship is to a woman always
sweeter than to be wOrshipped. To wOr-
ship, one must look up; to be wor-
shipped, one must look down.
Josh Billings says he knows people
who are so fond of argument that they
will stop and dispute with guide-board
about the distance TO the next town.
Luther says: "The slanderer has
the devil on his tongue and he who lis
tens to him has the devil in his ear.
There is very little difference between
them"
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but
in love there is sort of antipathy or
opposing passion. Each strives to be
the other, and both together make up
one whole.
All men need truth as they need wa.
ter; if wise men are the high grounds
where the springs rise, ordinary men
are the lower grounds which their
waters nOurish.
So great happiness do esteem it to
be loved, that really fancy every bless.
ing, both from gods and men, ready to
descend spontaneously upon him who is
loved.-Xen0phOn.
False happiness renders men stern
and proud, and that happiness is never
communicated. True happiness rem
ders them kind and sensible, and that
happiness is always shared.
Money will feed gluttony, fiatter
pride, indulge voluptuousness, and
crafty sensuality; but, unless it be an
engine in the hands of wisdom, it will
never produce any real joy.
He who learns and makes no use of
his learning, is beast of burden, with
load of books. COmprehendeth the
ass whether he carries on his back
library or bundle of fagots?
oa'Wills of rich men all remind u.s."
Us the able poet of the Chicago Times,
that we cannot make our wills endure,
but, departing, must leave behind us,
picking for the lawyers poor"
We like boys who try to help them
selves. Everyone ought to be friendly
to them. The boys of energy and ambi-
ton, who make manly effort to do
something for themselves, are the bone
of the country.
A few years ago Australia imported
a cargo of RABBITS for the purpose of
freeing the pastures of noxious weeds
and frightening mischievOus animals
from the grain fields. 1t is now i'm
porting weasels for the destruction of
rabbits.
The history of the world teaches no
lesson with more impressive solemnity
than this that the only safe guide of
great intellect, is a pure heart; that evil
no sooner takes possession of the heart,
than folly commences the conquest of
the mind.---C. c. BOnney.
When Pope, the great poet and
satirist was dying, friend, coming in
just after the physician (who had spo-
ken encouragingly of his case) had
gone, inquired how he did. az am
dying, sir, of a hundred good symp-
TOMS" was the characteristic reply.
There is as much difference between
courage and brutality as there is be-
tween recklessness and li6erality, or
freedom and licentlousness. Courage
is q divine element of the soul, brutality
but the offspring of the lowest and most
dGbasing exercise of the animal facul-
ties.
A beautiful Oriental proverb runs
thus: "With time and patience the
mulberry leaf becomes satin" How
encouraging Is this lesson to the impa-
tient and despondingi And what diff
ticulty is there that a man should quail
at, when worm can accomplish so
much from mulberry leaf2
The man whose bosom neither riches
nor luxury nor grandeur can render
happy, may, with book in his hand,
forget all his torments under the
friendly shade of every tree, and expe-
rience pleasures as infinite as they are
varied, as pure as they are lasting and
as compatible with every public duty
as they are contributory to his private
happiness.
Two very simple and automatic prln-
ciples 90 far to solve the much-discussed
woman question; first, every creature
of God has right to do, duty of do
ing, whatever good work 1t can; ability
is the measure of both right and duty.
Second, the only measure OF ability Is
experiment; the only way for any class
to ascertain what are Its powers Is to
try them.
What thing It is to be cheerful, and
to have cheerful people about onel Life
except during the pressure of Its most
terrible calamities, always has bright
side, and those who look at that side