The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-10-25
FOOD FCa THOUGHT,

We are often prophets 10 others be-
cause we are our own historians.
The sweetest mouth In the world is
the one that speaks the least scandal.
We often promise according to our
hopes and perform according TO our
fears.
How sad sight is human happiness
to those whose thoughts can pierce be-
yond an hour. ".
Children say what they will be; old
men, what they have been; only fools
say what they are.
In order TO live justly and be re-
spected, we must refrain from doing
what we blame In others.
These six-the peevish. the niggard,
the dissatisfied, the passionate, the sus-
picious, and those who live upon others
means-are forever unhappy.
If we would amend the world, we
should amend ourselves, and teach our
children not to be what we are our
selves, but what they should be.
Some injudlcious folks, instead of
encouraging the highly charged mind
and heart, in blowing OFF verse and
bombast, would sit on the safety-valve.
Theory is more speedily gained than
practice; but 1t comes first and must
preccde practice, but cannot, occupy It's
place. The two are distinct but always
appear best when united.
The great stone monuments of Eng
land are supposed, by Mr.. James Fer
gusson, to be military trophies, erected
in the time of King Arthur on the bat
tie fields by the victorious armies.
TO avenge wrong is easy, usual All
natural, and, as the world thinks, sa
vors of nobleness of the mind; but 70
liglOn teaches the contrary; and tells US
it is better to neglect than to requite it.
Sidney Smiths famour recipe against
the "blues," given to a fashionable wo-
man: "Sit down and remember all the
compliments ever paid to you," said he.
"No matter how foolish they are, they
will console you"
There is something cordial In fat
man; everybody likes him and he likes
everybody. Food does fat man good;
it clings to him; 1t fructities upon him;
he swells nobly out, and fills gener-
GUS space in life.-Henry Giles, .ar
True happiness is of retired nature,
and is an enemy to pomp and noise.
1t arises, in the first place, from the en-
joyment of ones self, and in the next,
from the friendship and conversation of
a few select companions.-Addisod.
Like a morning dream, life becomes
more and more bright the. longer we
live, and the reason of everything more
clear. What has puzzled us before
seems less mysterious, and the crooked
paths look straighter as we approach
the end. rrf .l ..rl
The passions are the only orators tina.
ever succeed. They are, as it were, ma
ture's only art of eloquence, fraught
with infallible rules. Simplicity, witt
the aid of the passions, persuades more
than the most fervent eloquence with
out it. .... ...........
A noble man compares and estimates
himself by an idea which is higher than
himself, and an ignoble man by one
which is lower than himself. The one
produces aspirations the other ambition.
Ambition is the, way in which vulgar
man aspires. ...
1t is the most beautiful truth in
morals, that we have no such thing rs
a distinct or divided interest from our
race. In their welfare is ours, and by
the broadest paths to effect
their happiness, we choose the surest
and the shortest to our own.-Bulloer
LyttOn. a..E
Success grows out of struggles to
overcome difficulties. If there were no
difficulties there would be no success.
If there were nothing to struggle for
there would be nothing achieved.
There is hill before us which all
active spirits endeavor to mount; they
run, they toll, they struggle, they rise.
Generally, nature hangs outasig of
in the face of fool, and
there is enough in his countenance for
4 hue and cry to take him OH suspicion,
Or else it is stamped In the figure OF his
body; their heads sometimes so little,
that there is no room for; sometimes so
long, that there is no wit for so much
.'H'..f
Cunning has only private and selfish
aims, and sticks at nothing which may
make them succeed. Discretion has
Iarge and extended views, and, like Il
we'll formed eye, commands a whole
horizon. Cunning is sort of short
;ightedness, that discovers the minutest
objects that are at hand but is not able
10 discern things at distance.
A Just and reasonable modesty does
lot only recommend eloquence, but
3ets off every great talent which a man
ian be possessed of. 1t heightens all
virtues which It accompanies; like the
shades of painting, 1t raises and rounds
,very figure, and makes the colors more
though not 80 glowing as
hey would be without it.-Addison.
Minds the most congenial, and SEEM
ngly formed to coalesce In the sweetest
lnion, may sometimes, by missing the
precise moment of explanation, after
light misunderstanding, separate for
,ver. Let us learn lesson from fact
which may be useful to the proudest
leart and the most delicate senslbillty
there Is no price so high, nor delicacy
10 refined, as to be above the aid of mu-
ual concession. U..
If thou workest at that which Ia be-
ore the, following right reason seri-
,usly, vigorously, calmly, without
anything anything else to dis
ract thee, but keeping thy divine part
,ure, as If thou shouldst be bound to
i've 1t back immediately; If thou
loldest to this, expecting nothing, fear
ng nothing, but satisfied with present
.ctivity according to nature and with
leroic truth In every, word thou utter
st, thou wilt live happy. And there
8 no man able to prevent this,-M.
4ntoninus.
Most persons talk too much. Reform
s needed In some quarters. In society
Hence is held to be ill-mannered, and
and entertained are obliged
n keen nm the form and sound of con-