The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-09-13
Words of Wisdom.
Humor is wit and love.

Humor is wit and love.
Years do not make sages they only
make old men.
1t is no use running to set out be-
times is the main point.
Honesty coupled to beauty is to have
honey sauce for sugar.
History is neither more nor less than
biography on large scale.
Use no hurtful deceit think innocent
ly and Justly and if you speak, speak
accordingly.
A good rider ON a good horse is as
much above himself and others as the
world can make him.
The most happy man is he who knows
how to bring into relation the end and
beginning of his life.
Character is like cloth. If white it
can be dyed black but once blackened
it cannot be dyed white.
You may gather a rich harvest of
knowledge by reading but thought is
the winnowing machine.
The loveliest faces are to be seen by
moonlight, when one sees half with the
eye and half with the fancy.
"Too late" and emo more" are the
mournful sisters, children of a sire
whose age they never console.
He who would not be frustrate of his
hope to write well hereafter in laudable
things ought himself to be q true poem.
Let not the emphasis of hospitality
lie in bed and board hut let truth and
love and honor and courtesy flow in thy
deeds.
Show yourself, at all times, so great q
lover of truth, that more credit may be
given to your simple word, than to others
oaths.
Everything may be mimicked by
hypocrisy but humility and love united.
The more rare the more radiant when
they meet.
Men are made to be eternally shaken
about, but women are flowers that lose
their beautiful colors in the noise and
tumult of life.
May exalting and humanizing
thoughts forever accompany me,
making me confident without pride, and
modest without servility.
1t is base to flch purse, daring to
embezzle million, but it is greater be-
| yond measure to steal a crown. The sin
decreases as the sin increases.
A man should insure himself to volun-
tary labor, and not give up to indulgence
and pleasure, as they beget no good con-
stitution of body nor knowledge Of
mind.
Wealth and want equally harden the
human heart, as frost and fire are both
alien to the human flesh. Famine and
gluttony alike drive nature away from
the heart OF man.
All the nice things of this world are
Of no further good to us than they are
of use and whatever we may heap up
to others we enjoy only as much as we
can use, and no more.
Honest and courageous people have
very little to say either about their
honesty or their courage. The sur has
no need to boast of his brightness nor
the moon of her effulgence.
Hope calculates it's schemes for q
long and durable life, presses forward to
imaginary points of bliss, and grasps at
impossibilities and consequently en-
snares men into beggary, ruin, and dis
honor.
A noble man compares and estimates
himself by an idea which is higher than
himself, and man by one which is
lower than himself. The one produces
aspirations, the other ambition. Am
bition is the way in which a vulgar man
aspires.
Iu all governments there must OF
necessity be both law and the sword.
Laws without arms would give us not
liberty, but Righteousness, and arms
without laws would produce not subiec-
ton but slavery. The law, therefore,
should be unto the sword what the
handle is to the hatchet; it should
direct the stroke and temper the force.
No man knows any one except him.
self whom he judges fit to set free from
the coercion of laws and to be abandoned
entirely to his own choice. By this con.
sidefation have all civilized nations been
induced to the enaction of penal laws
laws by which every mans danger be-
comes every mans safety, and by which
though all restrained, yet all are bene
fited.
Every failure is a step to success
every detection of what is false directs
us towards what is true every trial ex
hausts some tempting form of error
Not only SO /; but scarcely any attempt
is entirely a failure scarcely any theory
the result of steady thought, is alto
gether false no tempting form is with
out some latent charm derived from