The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-02-07
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.


many cents as he can.
Keep clear Of a man who does not
value his own character.
The greatest truths are the simplest
so are the greatest men.
Religion is the best armor a man can
have, but the worst cloak.
Honesty coupled with beauty Is to
have honey sauce for sugar.
Love looketh from the eye and kin
dleth love by looking.
Manners require time, as nothing is
more vulgar that ttaste.-EmersoH.
He who wishes to secure the good of
others, has already secured his own.
Talent is that which is mans power;
genius is that in whose power man is.
-Lopel.
Life becomes useless and insipid when
we have no longer either friends or
enemies.
There is no outward sign of courtesy
that does not rest on deep moral foun-
dation.-Goethe.
To have ideas is to gather flowers. To
think Is to weave them into garlsnds.-
Madame SWstchlne.
Many people are busy In this world
! gathering together handful of thorns
TO sit upon.-Jeren'y Taylor.
Sorrows gather around great souls as
storms do around mountains; but, like
them, they break the storm and purify
the air of the plain beneatht them.
A small sorrow distracts, great one
makes us collected; as a bell loses It's
clear tone when slightly cracked, and
RECEIVERS it if the tissure is enlarged.
Men of humor are, in some degree,
men ef genius; wits are rarely so, al
though man of genius, among other
gifts, may possess wit-as Shakespeare.
--COleridge.
A man should inure himself to volun-
tary labor, and not give up to indul-
gence and pleasure, as they beget no
good constitution Of body nor know
ledge of mind.
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 enly as much rs we
can use, and no more.
Never seek to be entrusted with your
friends secret; for no matter how faith
fully you may keep 1t, you may be liable
in thousand contingencies to the sus-
picion of having betrayed it.
We should no more lament that we
have grown old than the husbandman,
when the bloom and fragrance of spring
have passed away, should lament that
summer or autumn has come.
Beware of dissipating your powers;
strive constantly TO concentrate them.
Genius thinks it can do whatever il sees
others doing; but it is sure to repent of
every ill-judged outlay Goethe.
Is there fool in all this world that
cannot criticize? Those who can them
selves do good service are but as one to
thousand compared with those who
can see faults in the labor of others.
The beauty of holiness is beauty
that never fades. There Is no decay
from time, no deformty from over
strain, and no loss of form or bloom
from the burden and heat of the day.
True Joy is a serene and sober emo
tion; and they are miserably out who
take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of
IL is within, and there is no cheerful
ness like the resolution of a brave
mind.
Talents without the accompaniment
of religion are but fatal presents; they
not only add strength to the vices of
the individual, but wnat is worse they
render them more conspicuous to the
world.
1t Is all very well to be humble, but
it is possible to boast of your humility
until it sours into the worst kind of self
pride. There Is hardly virtue in the
calendar which man will not lose if he
talks much about it.
Surely happiness is reflective, like
the light of heaven; and every coun-
tenance bright with smiles, and glow
ing with innocent enjoyment, is mir
ror transmitting TO others the rays of a
supreme and ever-shining benevolence.
-IrvinG.
Aristotle laid it down as maxim
"that all inquiry should begin with
doubt" Whenever, then, we meet with
mysteries beyond our feeble compre-
hension, would it not be more rational
to doubt the very faculty we are en-
capacity Of our reason
ltselfp
We may possess earthly comforts, but
must not be possessed by them; NAV use
them "a flowers TO smell, but not as gar
lands for crown. We may make them
our encouragement but not our conf
dence; may use them as accessories and
helps, but not look to love them as our
chief happiness. -Spurstope.
There is sort of natural instinct or
human dignity In the heart of man
which steels his very nerves not to bend
beneath the heavy blows of a great ad-
versity. The palm tree grows best he.
meath ponderous weight; even so the
character OF man. There Is no merit in
IL; 1t is law of psychology. The petty
pangs OF small daily cares have often
bent the characters of men, but great
seldom. There is less dan
ger in this than in great good luck.
The little | have seen of the world
teaches me to look upon the errors Of
others In sorrow, not In anger. When
| take the history of one poor heart that
has sinned and suffered, and represent
TO myself the struggles and temptations
10 has passed through, the brief pulsa-
tions of joy, the feverlsh iDquietude of
hope and fear, the pressure Of want,
The deserton Of friends, / would fain
eave the erring soul Of my fellow-man
with him from whose unerring hand 1t
came.
II is a noble and great thing to cover
40 the blemishes and excuse the faillngs
,f friend Il TO draw curtain before
his stains and to display his perfectlons;
% bury his weaknesses in silence, but
10 proclaim his virtues from the house
.op. 1t is an imitation Of the charities