The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-12-06
Words of Wisdom.

IneIe Is no grace IN DeneHG lndt
sticks to the fingers. Seneca.
Reason should not regulate, but sup
plement virtue. FdncenGrgeS.
Justice without power is impotent.
Power without justice is tyrannieal.-
Pascal
The truest mark of being born with
great qualities is being born without
envy.-La RochefomcastJd.
Difference is the most delicate, the
most indirect and the most elegant of
compliments SdenStone.
We must consider humanity as man
who continually grows old, and always
learns.-L. Ffgttier.
1t is a species of agreeable seryitude
to be under an obligation to those we
esteem.-Queef Christine.
Whether happiness may come or not,
one should try and prepare ones self to
do without it George Eliot.
a coquette is woman 'thout any
heart that makes fool o man that
amt got any head.--The Continent.
Pedantry Grams our ears with learned
lumber, and takes out our brains to
make room for Cotton.
Fraud generally lights candle for
justice to get look at it; and a rogue's
pen indites the warrant for his own ar
rest.
We are never SO happy or unhappy
as we imagine. Every one complains
of his memory; but no one of his judg-
ment. La Rochct0ucaUld.
Philosophy easily triumphs over the
misfortunes that are past. and over
those that are to come; but the trials of
the present triumph over her. - La
R0chetoucduid.
A firm faith is the best divinity;
good life the best philosophy; a clear
conscience the best law; honesty the
best policy, and temperance the best
physic. Charr0n.
Whenever you commend, add your
reasons for doing so; it is this which
distinguishes the appreciation of man
of sense from the tlattery of sycophants
and admiration of fools. Steele.
Literature is q mere step to knowl-
edge, and the error often lies in our
identifying one with the other. Litera-
ture may, perhaps, make us vain; true
knowledge must render us humble
Mrs. Sanford.
As in our lives, so in our studies, it is
most becoming and most wise to temper
gravity with cheerfulness, that the form
er may not imbue our minds with mel
ancholy, nor the latter degenerate into
licentiousneSs.-Pij
Praise not people to their faces to the
end that they may pay you in the same
coin. This is so thin cobweb that it
may with little difficulty be seen
through; tbs rarely strong enough to
catch flies of any considerable magni-
tude.-Fuller.
Great humiliations rarely console US;
we forget them. Sublime thoughts come
from the soul To say new things is
easier than to reconcile those that have
been said. Language and intellect
haun honnde Tr1lth is infinite Arra.,
ice is the last and the most tyrannical
of passions. FaaUenargeS.
After all the most natural beauty in
the world is honesty and moral truth
For all beauty is truth. True features
make the beauty of face, and true
proportions the beauty of architecture,
as truth measures that of harmony and
music. In poetry, which is all fable,
truth still is the perfection ,SbqfteS-
bury.
Men seem neither to understand their
riches nor their strengthen the former
they believe greater things than they
should; of the latter much less. Self
reliance and self-denial viii teach
man to drink out of his own cistern, and
eat his own sweet bread, and TO learn
and labor truly to get his living, and
carefully to expend the good things
committed to his trust.-BQc0B.