Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-05-30
GEMS FROM EMERSON.

We owe debt to every great heart, to
every fine genius, to those who have put
| life and fortune on the cast of an act OF
justice, to those who have added new
sciences, to those who have refined life by
elegant pursuits. 'Tis the fine souls who
serve us, and not what is called fine soci.
ciety. Fine society is only self-protection
against the vulgarities of the street and
tavern. -[Considerations by the Way.
We do not believe there is any force in
to-day to rival or recreate that beautiful
yesterday. We linger in the ruins Of the
old tent, where once we had bread and
shelter and organs nor believe that the
spirit can feed, cover and nerve us again,
We cannot again find aught SO dear, so
sweet, so graceful. But we sit and weep
in vain. The voice of the Almighty saith
Cup and onward forever more !" We
cannot stay amid the -[Compensa-
tion.
Next to the originator of good sentence
is the first quoter of it. Many will read
the book before one thinks of quoting .
passage. As soon as he has done this, that
line will be quoted eass and west. Then
there are great ways of borrowing,
Genius borrows noblY. When Shake
speare is charged with debts to his
authors, Landor replies "Yet he was
more original than his originals. He
breathed upon dead bodies and brought
them into life. "-[Quotation and Origin.
ality.
The law of the table ia Rso-t- .-sPee1
20 the common soul of all the guests.
Everything is unreasonable which ia prl.
vate to two or three or any portion OF the
company. Tact never violates for mo-
ment this law never intrudes the orders
of the house, the vices of the absent, or
tariff Of expenses, or professional privacies +;
as we say, we never "tdlk shop" before
company. Lovers abstain from caresses,
and haters from insults, whilst they sit III
one parlor with common friends. Il Social
Aims.
| wrote the past in characters
OF rock and fire the SCROLL
The building in the coral sea-
The planting OF the coal.
And thefts from satellites and rings
And broken stars drew,
And out of spent and aged things
formed the world anew.
-lsong of Nature
think Hans Andersen's story of the cob
web cloth woven so fine that it was invisible
woven for the king garment-mustmean
manners, which do really clothe princely
nature. Such one can well 60 in 3
blanket, if he would. In ths gymnasium
or on the sea beach his superiority does not
leave him. But he who has not this fine
garment of behavior is studious of dress,
and then not less of house and furniture
and pictures and gardens, in all which he
hopes to lie perdu, and not be expossd.-
TSocial Alma.
Shall we, then, judge country by the
majority or by the minorityt By the mi.
nority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate
nations by the census or by square miles
of land, or other than by their Importance
to the mind of the time Masses the
calamity is the masses. do not wish any
mass at all, but honest men only,
lovely, sweet, accomplished women only,
and no shovel-handed, Drained.
gin-drinking, million stockingers or lazza-
roni at all. All the feats which make our
civility were the thoughts of few good
heads. Considerations by the Way.