The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-06-14
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

! OiN Dhb gOuiEtlls
Falthfulness and sincerity are the
highest things.-COnfucius.
When shall we have a rich man who
will also be great.-Demorest Lloyd.
A mind that is conscious Of its integ-
rity scorns to say more than 1t means To
perform.
He that lags behind in a road where
many are driving, always will be in
cloud of dust.
Pride and weakness are Slamese
twins, knit together by the indissOluble
hyphen.-LOpeH.
We should accustom the mind to keep
the best company by introducing 1t only
to the best books.
God gives riches to the world, but
stores up treasures of wholesome ailic-
tions for his children.
The man who follows the multitude
when he is strong is likely to be left
alone when he is sick.
Politeness is too often but perfidiOus
generosity which leaves the heart cold
and the prejudices untouched.
Learn to sleep with one eye open. As
soon as the chickens go to roost 1t Is
good time for the fox.
Perseverance will obtain good cab
bage and lettuce where otherwise moth
ing but thistles will grow.
The wish of most people is for for
tune and nothing to do. How fully
men are punished when it is realized
Energy and power result from a
ceaseless looking forward in the hope of
making tomorrow better than to-day.
Women never have a complete Sc
verify of demeanor except toward those
whom they dislike.-Ld ROchef0ucduld.
Prosperity is great teacher, adver-
sity greater. Possession pampers the
mind; privatiOn trains and strengthens
| it.
Why do people write that they sac
cept with pleasure" an invitation,
when they really mean they do so with
reiuctanceP
Blessed is he who learns to profit by
his wants and infirmities, and who, In
all his privations, is still submissive to
the will of God.
Many of us sspend our youth In letting
down empty buckets into empty wells
and fritter away our age in trying to
draw them up again.
Be ever ready to forgive. "Remem.
Der he who refuses forgiveness breaks
the bridge over which he must pass, for
all need forgiveness"
The greatest heresy that can deceive
the human mind is the heresy that makes
a man believe he can meet with mercy
while he lives in sin.
When you have nothing to say, say
nothing. A weak defence strengthens
your opponent, and silence is less inju-
rious than poor reply.
For myself, have appetites that are
higher than my mouth. Every love,
every heroic or noble feeling, and spir-
itual force become appetites.
The opinions of the misanthrOpica
rest upon this very partial basis: that
they adopt the bad faith of few as evi.
| dence of the wOrthlessness of ALL
BOvee.
When Father Taylor, of Boston,
broke his arm, he came into the pulpit
and said: "Thank God, still have one
arm with which to work my way to
heaven.
Wise men mingle mirth with their
cares, as help either to forget or over
come them; but to resort to intoXication
for the ease of ones mind, is to cure
melancholy by madness.
Folly soon wears her shoes out. She
dances so fast we are all of us tired.
Golden wires may annoy us as much as
steel bars, if they keep us behind prison
windows.-Otoen Meredith.
Every heavy burden of sorrow seems
like stone hung around our neck, yet
they are often like the stones used BY
the pearl divers, which enable them TO
reach the prize and to rise enriched.
The quiet self possession and unaf-
fected courtesy of a lady or gentleman,
will set at ease the most diffident, but
there are others who claim to be ladies
and gentlemen who have a contrary ef-
feet.
An honest reputation is within the
reach of all men; they obtain it by
social virtues and by doing their duty.
This kind of reputation, 1t is true, is
neither brilliant nor startling, but 1t Is
often the most useful for happiness.
There would not be any absolute ne
cessity for reserve If the world were
honest; yet even then 1t would prove
expedient. For, in order to attain any
degree of Difference, 1t seems necessary
that people should imagine that you have
more accomplishments than you dis
cover.
The moment we quit the path of pru.
dence, and become unable to use our
Judgment, our passions hurry us head
long; human weakness seeks its relief
in yielding TO their force; and insensi-
bly, we find ourselves launched on the
wide deep, destitute of rudder and
tackle, and the sport of every wave.
1t is not possible to be regarded with
tenderness but by few. The merit which
gives greatness and renown diffuses its
Influences to wide compass, but acts
weakly on every single breast; 1t IL
placed at distance from common spec
tators, and shines like one of the remote
stars, of which the light reaches us, but
not the heat.
If we pity the good and weak man
who suffers undeservedly, let us deal
very gently with him from whom
misery extorts not only tears but shame
let us think humbly and charitably of
the human nature that suffers 30 sadly
and falls so low. Whose turn may 1t be
tomorrow What weak heart, conf
dent before trial, may not succumb un-
der temptation invinciblep
Charles Kingsley, when at Cambridge,
answered the requirement describe
pump" in one of his examination pa
pers, by drawing a grand village pump
In the midst of a broad green, with the
village beadle presiding over 1t, and the
villagers of all ages, and with all kinds