Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1881-05-05
WIT AND WISDOM.

| Victor Hugo: When love is
dead there is no God.
Sterne: In pursuit. of rest, men
often tire themselves.
Roscoe Conkling: Many a genius
is harp witlr only one string.
Isaac d'Isrseli: The failure Of
one man "a the opportunity Of an
other:
Lander: Censure is the tax q
man pays to the public for being
I eminent:
! Adolph Ricard A woman and
her servant together can get the
detter of a dozen dseils.
La Rockefoucau.d There is but
one kind of love, but there are 8
thousand different copies Of it.
A man owes his success in his
life work to the woman who walks
beside him:
Alexandra Dumas True love
always makes a man better, NO
matter who the woman is who in
spires it..
John Ituskin: :: Nothing Is ever
done beautifully which is done in
rivalship, nor noLly, whiclr..is done
in pride.
Archbishop Whatley: Woman is
like the reed which ben ds to every
breeze, but breaks not IN the tenn
pest.
Mile. de Scuderi: !: Love is I do
not know what ; it comes from I
do not know where; it ends do
know how:
Seneca: The goodness of gold
!; is tried by fire, the goodness of wo-
men by gold. and the goodness Of
men by women:
,, George Elliott There's a sort of
human paste, that when it comes
near the fire Of enthusiasm is only
baked into a hard shape:
Stick to one thing until it is done,
and done we'll. The man who
. chases two hares not only leaves
one of them, but is pretty sure TO-
, fose the other also:
9 Lord Beaconsfeld There is no
), time in u mans life when he is SO
J great rs when lie cheerfully bows
: to the necessity Of position, ard
t makes the best of it.
;, Plutarch: To do an evil action
is base; to do a good one without
incurr:ng danger is common; but
!. it is the part of good man to d."
great and noble deeds; though he
, risks everything.
}. Chas. Reade The fortunate man
d is he who, born poor, or nobody,
G works gradually up to wealth and
= consideration and, having got
is them, dies before he finds they were
q not worth SO much trouble.
u Henry George: Man is an ani-
> NAL but he is an animal plus
, something else. He is the nytlic
.e earth-tree, whose roots are in tho
Is ground, but whose topmost branch
Z may blossom in the heavens.
re- Thackeray: A woman may bc
al loved for three things; for her in
: tellect-a love serious but rare fol
.'e her Jsauty-a love vulgar and
ID brief for the Qualities of heart-a
at love lasting but inonetonous.
re Dumas fills Why should mar
OF of intelligence become attached te
q a woman For the same reason
- that Horace Vernct attached him
a. self to the mast of a ship, that Ii.
r. might contemplate the tempest.
) Oliver Wendell Holmes Dom
Io you know how hard it is tor some
NV people to get ont of room after
~ their visit is really over? On,
a. would think they had been built il
is. your parlor orstudy, and were wait
ing to be launched!
Hawthorne Thank Providence
for spring The Garth, and MAJ
himself by sympathy with his birth
place, would be far other than W
W oi find him if life toiled wearly on
.e' ward without thia periodical infu
e er sion Of the primal spirit.
IL Carlyle The man without
In purpose is like a ship without
ast rudder waif, nothing, NJ
Ike man. Have a, purpose in life, if
let is only to kill, and divide. and sci
yss oxen well, but have a purpose
lid and having it, throw such strength
ak OF mind and muscle into you
ess works as God has given you.
ar Richter All it was not til
CO. mere Lubberland Of sweetmeal
ply and playrhings which then, with ii
lie. perspective, storms like a river {
ues Joy against the chambers Of ou
oe. hearts and which yet, in the mour
rm light of memory, with it's dusk
!. OF Landscapes, melts our soul in swee
to ness. All ! this was 1t, that the