The Bossier banner., 1883-05-03
Miscellaneous Clippings.

The "best society" is often any
thing but good.
No denunciation is SO eloquent as
the final influence of good example.
''Great talkers,1 observes Louis
the Fourteenth, soften utter great
nonsense"
Lavater: "Tbe great rule of
moral conduct, is next to God, to
respect time"
Many people mistake stubborn
ness for bravery, meanness for
economy, and vileness for wit.
La Rochefoucauld: High titles
debause, instead of elevating, those
who know not how to support them.
Charles Reade: ave GO and
fancy that everybody is thinking of
us; but he is not; he is like US; he is
thinking of himself.n
Being less annoyed at the defects
of others is one of the best proofs
that we are approaching freedom
from defects ourselves.
When you fret and fume at the
petty ills of life remember that the
wheels which go round without
creaking last the longest.
What this world really wants,
though it may not be aware of the
fact, is more of a genuine religion,
and less of the adulterated kind.
If you had as strong a dislike to
being bad man as you have to be-
ing thought one what difference
there would be in your life!
Thomas Carlyle said: "The
wealth of man is in the number of
things which he loves and blesses,
and which be is loved and blessed
by"
Charms strike the sight but merit
wins the soul.
Grieve not that men know not you,
grieve that you know not men.
The more honesty a man has the
less he affects the air of saint.
You can't always tell what dog or
a tree is by its bark, nor what man
is by his talk.
st. Louis shipped to foreign mar
kets during 1882 nearly million
barrels of flour.
Brains can not be measured by the
size of the head, nor eloquence by the
extent of the mouth.
An evil mind viii be sure to put
the worst construction on another's
actions. Who can stand before envy ?
The most delicate, the most sensi-
BILE of all pleasures, consist in pro-
noting the pleasures of others.
The grand essentials of happiness
are, something to do, something to
love, and something to hope for.
The power of a mau's virtue should
not be measured by his special efforts,
but by his ordinary doing.
Horace says unless your cask is
clean, whatever you pour into it turns
sour.
La Buryere says modest man
shuns making himself the subject of
his conversation.
L. s Storrs: Our hearts ought to
be like the sensitive plate on which
the flash of the sun leaves the image
of God.
G. L. Goodsell: A tree grew through
the hole of milestone, but the stone
broke while the tree lived. This il
lustrates truth and error.
Nothing is more common than for
people to have reputation for quail
ties they do not posses.
Spurgeon says if you do wrong
you will have to reap the consequent
ces-so, then, always do right.
There are a great many rude peo-
pie in this world who insist on
speaking their minds" and then say
nothing.
When a man says he believes the
whole world to be made up of knaves
1t is generally because he has been in
the business himself and doesn't want
it known.
If you should spend half an hour
day in meditating on the virtues which
you do not possess it might possibly
lower your self-esteem.
Some men get religion and some
men get vaccination. It is woderful
how many cases there are in which
neither the religion nor the vaccina
tion ''takes."
1t is one of the maxims of Francis
de Sales-and good men and women
In all lands might well adopt it as
their motto-that ga judicious silence
is always better than truth spoken
without charity"
There have been many definitions
of a gentleman, but the prettiest and
most poetic is that given by lady.
ga gentleman, /" said she is ''a human
being combining a woman's tender
ness with a mans courage"
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