The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-07-12
GRAINS OF GOLD.

There can be no friendship where
there is no freedom Penn.
Frugality is founded on the princi-
pie that all riches have limits Burke.
If you would not have an affiiction
visit you twice, listen at once to what it
teaches Burgh.
Certain trifiing flaws sit as disgrace
fully on a character of elegance as a
ragged button on court Dress Lava
ter.
1t is good discretion not to make
much of any man at the first, because
one cannot hold out that proportion. =
Lord Bacon.
Fortune is ever seen accompanying
industry, and is as often seen trundliug
IN wheelbarrow as lolling in coach
and six Goldsmith.
One principal point of good breeding
is to suit our behavior to the three sew
eral degrees Cf men-our superiors, our
equals and those below u.s. Swift.
Most controversies would soon be
ended if those engaged in them would
first accurately define their terms and
then rigidly adhere to their definitions.
: Edwards.
Troubles spring from illness and
grievous tolls from needless ease; many
without labor, would live by their wits
only, but they break for want of stock.
II Franklin.
Every man has his chain and clog,
only it is looser and lighter to one
man than another, and he is more at
ease who takes it up than he who drags
it. Rule of Life.
A generous, a brave, noble deed per-
formed by an adversary, commands our
appreciation; while in its consequences
it may be acknowledged prejudicial to
our particular interest. - Hume.
In private conversation between in
innate friends the wisest men very
often talk like the weakest; for, indeed,
the talking with friend is nothing
else but thinking aloud Addison.
The head truly enlightened will pres
emily have a wonderful influence in
purifying the heart. and the heart
really affected with goodness will much
conduce to the directing of the head.
i Sprat.
When we are young we are slavishly
employed in procuring something
whereby we may live comfortably when
we grow old, and when we are old we
perceive it is too late to live as we pro-
posed Pope.
Mirth is like the flash of lightning
that breaks through the gloom of the
clouds and glitters for a moment /;
cheerfulness keeps up daylight in TIE
soul, filling it with steady and perpet-
ual serenity Steele.
The conclusion at which / have ar
rived is, that without temperance. there
is no health; without virtue, no order !;
without religion no happiness and that
the sum of our being is to live wisely,
soberly and righteously.- McDonough.
Nothing so cements, and holds to
gether in unison all the parts of a
society as faith or credit, which can
never be kept up unless men are under
some force or necessity honestly paying
what they owe to one another. = Cic-
erO.
Oddities and singulsrities of behav-
ior may attend genius; but when they
do they are its misfortunes and blem-
ishes. The man of true genius will be
ashamed of them, or, at least, will never
affect to be distinguished by them
Temple.
Men are not to be judged by their
looks, habits and appearance, but by
the character of their lives and conver-
sations, and by their works. 'Tis better
that mans own works than that an
al -
= Sir r. L'Estrange.
Take rather than give, the tone of
the company you are In. 1t you have
parts, you will show them, more or less,
upon every subject; and if you have
not, you had better talk Silly upon a
subject of other peoples choosing than
your own choosing Chesterfield.
There are but three ways for man
to revenge himself of the censure of the
world; to despise it, to return the like,
or to endeavor to live so as to avoid it !;
the first of these is usually pretended,
the last is almost impossible, the uni
versal practice is for the second
Swift.
The fountain of content must spring
up IN the mind and he who has so lit
tie knowledge of human nature as to
seek happiness by changing anything
but his own disposition, will waste his
life in fruitIess efforts and multiply the
griefs which he purposes to remove
Johnson.
Remember, that if thou marry for
beauty, thou bipdest thyself all thy life
for that which, perchance, viii neither
last nor please thee one year; and when
thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price
at all, for the desire dieth when it is at
tanned, and the affection perisheth when
it is satisfied Sir W. Raleigh.
The knowledge of courtesy and good
manners is a very necessary study. 1t
is like grace and beauty; that which be-
gets liking and an inclination to love
one another at the first sight, and in
the beginning of an acquaintance, a
familiarity; and consequently that
which first opens the door and intro
duces us to better ourselves by the ex-
amples of others. If there be anything
in the society worth taking notice Of
Montaigne.
On the authority of the Valley (Cal.