The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-08
SENSE AND SENTIMENT.


nal patience.
Shakespeare: A woman's fitness
comesb by fits.
Lord Lytton: Women, like pru-
ces, find few real friends.
Goethe: Thesociety of woml
the element of good manners.
Goldsmith: None but the ~
can be long and completely misera-
BILE.
Anon: A curious fact-Satan de-
prived JOB of everything except his
wife.
Mrs. A. d. T. Whitney: There / /,
good deal of everywhere ia every
little distance.
act their part when they make their
ordered houses know them.
Bacon: To feel, to love, to suffe
to devote herself will always be tn ;
text ofthe life of woman.
Pierre Veron: Thomas mus
touch before believing. What a
poor stockholder he would have
made.
Fenelon: Thou wilt be great
only in proportion as thou art gen.
tie and courageous to subdue thy
passions.
Irving: One must feel intellec-
tually secure before he can begin to
dress shabbily no one but a genius
or great scholar dares TO be dirty.
Thomas-a-hempis: For He is
ready to help them that fight trust
ing in His grace, who Himself pro
videth us occasion TO fight, in order
that we may overcome.
Anon: The superiority of man TO
nature is outwardly illustrated in
literature and in life. Nature needs
an immense quantity of quills to
make a goose with, but man can
make goose of himself in five min
utes without one quill.
Bacon: Comus, duke of Italy, had
desperate saying against the per-
fidy of his friends: "You shall read y
said he, "that we are commanded to
forgive our enemies, but you never
read that we are commanded to for
give our friends"
Bacon: Tho good things which
belong to prosperity are to be wished,
but the good things which belong TO
adversely are to be admired. The
virtue of prosperity is temperance,
the virtue of adversely fortitude,
which, in morals, is the more heroic
virtue.
Coleridge: Socrates introduced
ethics and taught duties, and then
finally Plato asserted or reasserted
the idea of Il God, the maker of the
world. The measure ofhuman phil
Osophy was thus full, when Christi
anitY came to add what before was
wanting-assurance.
Charles Dudley Warner: Any
body can write first lines, and thati
probably the reason we have so
many poems which seem TO have be-
gun in just this way-that is, with a
south-wind-longing without any
thought in it; and il is very fortu-
nate when there is not wind enough
to finish them.
Jean Paul Richter: When man
can obtain from reason no balsamic
relief he begs it at the hands of hope
and illusion, and they, too, then will
lingly share his sorrow. But the
grave is not deep it. is the cleaning
foot-marks of an angel who seeks
us.
Macdonald: 1 learned that IL is
better thousand times for proud
man to be humble than 10 hold up
his head in his pride and fancied in
nocence. IlcaI n ed that he who will
be hero will barely be O man, and
he that will be nothing but a door
fl 2f his R4GG Gk u fHFar are, ef Acdrrff5
rawness, like foolish landsmen who
laugh at the terrors of the ocean be-
cause they have not experienced
enough to know what those terrors
are, nor brains enough to imagine
them.
Senator Bayard: The best part
of mans life is in the world Of his
natural affections, and that realm
has laws of its own that neither
know nor heed kings nor congresses,
and are deaf even to the voices Of
shouting popular maiorities, but
heed and obey rather the gentle
voice OF womaH and the cry Of help
less and feeble childhood.
Sydney Smith: Not only study
that those with whom you live
should habitually respect you, but
cultivate such manners as will Sc
cure the respect of persons with
whom you occasionally converse.
Keep up the habit of being re-
spected and do net attempt to be
more amusing and agreeable than is
consistent with the preservation Of
respect.