The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-07-05
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

In calamity, think how much may
have been escaped.
Principles can only be strong by the
cogency of religion.
Charity is frequently best displayed
In helping others to help themselves.
Nationality is the aggregated indi-
viduality of the greatest men of the
nation. .. ..H
He Is rich who saves penny year !;
and he is poor who runs behinds penny
q year.
Poverty is the only burden which
grows heavier by being shared by those
we love.
Have more than thou showest, speak
less than thou knoWest, lend less than
thou Owest.
The genius of liberty and poetry
brought into action the brightest powers
of the human mind.
There is no error so crooked but IL
has In it some lines of truth. That is
why 1t is so unsuccessful.
Calumny, although raised upon
nothing, is too swift to be ovrrtaken,
and too volatile to be impeded.
The bread of life is love; the salt OF
life is work; the sweetness of life
poetry the water of life, faith.
in the modesty Of fearful duty read
as much as from the rattling tongue of
saucV and audaciOus elOquence.
Life is too short to nurse ones misery.
Hurry across the lowlands aud you may
linger longer on the mountain tops.
Boys that have been properly reared
are men, in point of usefulness, at six
teel; while those who have been brought
up in idle habits are useless at twenty
one.
Any work, no matter how humble,
that man hOnOrs by efficient labor will
be found important enough to secure
respect for himself and credit for his
name.
Many who find the day too long,
think life too short; but short as life is,
some find it long enough to outlive their
characters, their constitutions aud
estates.
Flattery is safe coin which our own
vanity has made current, and which
will never be out of credit as long as
there are knaves to offer it and fools to
receive it.
The past is disclosed, the future con-
cealed in doubt. And yethuman nature
is needless of the past, and fearful Of
the future-regarding not the science
and experience that past ages have un-
yelled.
Implicit submission In a man to his
wife is ever disgTaCeful to both; but
implicit submission in wife to the will
OF her husband is what she promised at
the altar, and what the good will revere
her for.
Ancient Arabic places of worship
have been discovered on the high hills
along the Nile, with circles of stones
like the Druid circles of Britain, and
other memorials within the circle, of
good workmanship.
Each grave on the broad breast of
the whole earth, whether men have
marked it, or forgotten it is in Gods
keeping, briers and weeds cannot hide
it from his eyes, neglect and desolaton
cannot cover it from his care.
Beauty is as summer fruits, which are
easy to corrupt, and cannot last; and,
Tor the most part, it makes a dissolute
youth, and an age little out of cOun-
tenance; but yet, certainly, again, if it
light well, it maketh virtue shine and
vices blush.
Sir Walter Scott In a conversation
with young man VINO was about to
embark on the perilous voyage of litera-
ture as profession, made to him this
pithy remark, full ofsagacious counsel:
Literature, my young friend, is a good
staff. but bad crutch."
Peace does not dwell In outward
things but within the soul. We may
preserve it in the midst of the bitterest
pain, if our will remains firm and sub
missive. Peace in this life springs from
even in disagreeable
things, not in an exemption from suf-
fering.
Curiosity in children is but an appe-
tite after knowledge. doubt not but
one great reason why many children
abandon themselves wholly to silly
sports, and tritle away all their time in
sipidly, is because they found their
curiosity banked, and their inquiries
neglected.
Many young people who fancy prose
aud poetry of lasting fame can be pro-
luced without days and weeks of
earnest thought, need to be reminded
hat Goldsmith considered four lines II
lay good work, and was seven years
beating out the pure gold of the "De-
,erjed Village"
1t is easy to pick holes in other peO-
ple's work, but IL is far more profitable
10 do better yourself. Is there fool in
all the world that cannot critiClseI
Those who can themselves do good ser.
vice are but as one to thousand COM
pared with those who can see faults in
The labor of others.
"Home is the head of the river,' and
an influence, whether blessed or perni-
rious, exerted there will affect all its
after course. Hence the noble French
woman was right, when, in reply to the
question, "What is needed to
secure the prosperity of Francer she
said, "Good mothers"
Men will improve themselves, If the
circumstances in which they are placed
furnish stimulus TO that improvement.
They will also acquire wealth, If their
be rewarded and its fruits en-
ioyed and, generally speaking they will
become intelligent and virtuous, If the
means of obtaining knowledge be fairly
within their power.
Virtue is certainly the most noble and
secure possession a man can have.
Beauty is worn out by time and Impaired
by sickness. Riches lead youth rather
10 destruction than welfare, and with
out prudence are soon lavished away
while virtue alone, the only good that
Ia avar dura hle nj WaVs remains with