The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-10-13
Sonso and Sont;mant


Michael Angelo: Genius is eternal
patience.
Shakespeare A woman's fitness
comes by fits.
Lord Lyttleton Women. like prin-
ces. find few real friends.
Goethe The society of women is the
element of good manners.
Goldsmith None but the guilty can
be long and completely miserable.
Anon A curious flct-Satan de-
prived Job of everything except his
wife.
Mrs. A. d. T. Whitney: There is n
good deal of everywhere in every little
distance.
Sheridan Knowles /: Women do act
their part when they make their order
ed houses know them.
Balzac To feel, to love, to suffer, to
devote herself will always be the text
of the life OF woman.
Pierre Veron Thomas must touch
before believing. What a poor stock
holder he would have made.
Fenelon: Thou wilt be great only in
proportion as thou are gentle and cour-
ageOus to subdue thy passions.
Irving One must feel intellectually
secure before he can begin to dress
shabbily; no one but genius or a
great scholar dares to be dirty,
Thomas Kempis: For He is
ready to help them that fight trusting
in His grace. who Himself provideth
us occasion to fight, in order that We
may overcome.
Anon: The superiority of man 10
nature is outwardly illustrated in liter
ature and in life. Nature needs an inl-
mense quantity of quilts to make u
goose with. but man can make goose
of himself in five minutes without one
quill.
Bacon Comus, Duke of Italy, had a
desperate SAYING against the pcrhdity
of his friends: ''You shall read" said
he, ''that we are commanded to forgive
our enemies, but you never read that
we are commanded to forgive our
friends"
Bacon: The good things which be-
long to prosperity are to be wished,
but the good things belong to adversely
arc to be admired. Tho virtue of pros
perity is temperance. the virtue of ad
versity fortitude, which. in morals, is
the more heroic virtue.
Jean Paul Richter: When man car
obtain from reason no balsamic relief
he begs it at the hands of Hope ant
Illusion. and they, too. then willingly
share his sorrow. But the
grave is not deep it is the cleaning
foot-marks of an angel who seeks us.
Macdonald: learned that it is bet
ter thousand times for proud man
to be humble, than to hold up his heat
in his pride and fancied innocence.
learned that he who will be a hero will
barely be a man, and he that will b'
nothing but doer of his work is SURF
of his manhood.
Hammerton The pets Of nature. who
do not know what suffering is, and can
not realize it, have certain rawneSs
| like foolish landsmen who laugh at th'
terrors of the ocean because they hav
not experienced enough to know wha
those tcrrors are, no brains enough t
imagine them.
Colerid.e Socrates introduced
ethics. and taught duties, and then tin
ally Plato asserted, or reasserted. th
idea Of God, tho maker of the world
The measure of human philosophy VA
thus full. when Christianity came to al
what before was wanting-assurance.
| Charles Dudley Warner Anybod
can write first lines, and that is probat
ly the reason we have so many poem
which seem to have begun in just thi
way-that is, with II sound-wind-lona
ing without any thought in it and it
very fortunate when there is not win
enough to finish them.
Senator Bayard The bost part man
life is in the world OF his natural affe,
tions. and that realm has laws of i
own that neither know nor heed kin
nor congresses, and are deaf even
the voices of the shouting popular m'
jorities, but heed and obey rather Il
gentle voice of woman, and the cry I
helpless and feeble childhood.