The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-09-20
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

A1N NAioh ANihoNAh W uuN kbOu NNllllsfl
cheap, must buy repentance dear.
Truth is the foundation Of all knowl-
edge aud the cement Of all societies.
Dryden.
The steps Of faith fall on the seeming
void, aud find the rock beneath
Whittier.
A cheerful face is nearly as good for
an invalid as healthy weather.
Franklin.
Men will wrangle for religion; write
for it; fight for it; die for it; an ythlng
but live up to it.
Luther was wont to say, "Three
things make good ministers-tempta-
ton, aiiiietion, supplicatiOn."
Harvest never comes to such as SOW
not; and so experience will not unless
you do what God has commanded.
The cultivation of heart should he
like that of garden, where we prune
and weed before we begin to plant.
The plaintiff and defendant in an ac.
ton at law are like two men ducking
their heads I'm bucket, and daring
each other to remain longest under
water.
Folly consists in the drawing of false
conclusions from just principles by
which it is distinguished from madness
which draws just conclusions from false
principles.
BE slow in choosing friend, and
slower to change him; courteous to all,
Intimate with few; slight no one on ac-
count of poverty, nor esteem any for
their wealth.
Pride of origin, whether high or low,
springs from the same principle in hui
man nature; one is but the positive, the
other the negative, pole of single weak
ness.-LOUeU.
Mrs. Partington wishes to know why
the captain of vessel can't keep
memorandum of the weight of his an
chor, instead of weighing it every time
he leaves port.
A prudent man should think upon
knowledge and wealth as if he would
neither grow old nor die; he should
practice virtue as if death had seized
him by the hair.
Love teaches cunning even to innO-
ceEce, and when he gets possession his
first work is to dig deep within heart
and there lie hid, and like miser in
the dark, to feast alone.
There never did, and there never
Will, exist anything permanently noble
and excellent in the character which is
a stranger 10 the exercise of resolute
self. denial Walter Scott.
A lady asked the gardener why the
weeds always Outgrew and covered up
the flowers. "Madam," answered he,
''the soil is mother of the weeds, but
only step-mOther of flowers"
Women charm, as a general thing in
as they are good. A plain
face with heart behind it is worth Il
world of beauty. Men who have tried
both uniformly agree to this.
1t is glorious occupation, vivifying
and self-sustaining in its nature, TO
with ignorance and discover
to the inquiring minds of the masses
the clear cerulean blue of heavenly
truth.
Life, whether in this world or in any
other is the sun of our entertainment,
our existence, our character. The con-
ditions are secondary. In what other
world shall we be more surely than we
are here?
A man is thirty years old before he
has any settled thoughts of his future,
it is not completed before fifty. He
falls to building in his old age, and dies
before his house is in condition to be
painted and glazed BrWere.
Though 1 look old, yet am strong
md lusty; for In my youth never did
apply hot and rebellOus liquors I'm my
blood; nor did not with unbashful fore
lead woo the means of weakness and
iebility; therefore my age is a lusty
winter, frosty, but kindly.-ShakeS-
,edre.
The peach was originally a poisonous
llmond. In olden times its tleshy
parts were used to poison arrows, and
vas for this purpose introduced into
Persia. The transportation and cult
,ation not only removed its poisonous
butproduced the delicious
ruitwe now enjoy in its season.
Happiness is the perpetual possession
# beings well deceived, for it is mani
est what mighty advantages fiction
las over truth; and the reason is at
'ur elbow. Because Imagination can
'uild nobler scenes and produce more
wonderful revolutions than fortune or
lature can be at the expense to furnish.
Men have been somewhat cynically
efined as a cOntrivance of wise men to
.eep fools at a distance. Fashion Is
hrewd to detect those who do not be-
e, ha, Ia nd ua1InVn
Ter attentions. Society Is very swift In
is instincts, and If you do not belong
o it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly
rops you.
"Between parents and their children
heir is so great society Of nature aud
t manners, of blessing and curslng,
hat an evil parent cannot perish In
ingle death. "Holy parents never eat
heir meal of blessing alone, but they
lake the room shine like the fire Of
oily aaCrihce, and a fathers or mothers
iety makes all the house festival and
all of joy, from generation to genera
on"
Success must be conquered. The man
tho is fit for place Is seldom neglected.
Ie who ceases to strive, in order that
e may sit down and complain that he
slighted, overlooked, forgotten, may
EST assured that his case will grow
lore and more desperate the more he
)mplains. Whining does not overcome
eglect, but courts 1t. Courage, dill
ence, cheerfulness, faith-these are
ie traits which mark the successful
ian.
With some, scolding is chronic. Life
one long fret. The flesh is leverish,
ie nerves unstrung, the spirit per-
irbed and in state Of unrest. The
hysical condition and the material sur
may have strong tendency
disturb our equan!mity, and TO exas-