The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-01-16
T~HOUGHTFUL SAYINGS.

a pau way 10 read otHef people 5 hearts
is to try to conceal your own.
We should be indulgent for actions; they
are so rarely pr~emeditated.
Honesty sometimes keeps a man from
becoming rich, civility from being witty.
Our years, our debts and our enemies
are always more numerous than we imagine.
Money you earn yourself is much brighter
than any you get out of dead mems bags.
Talking and %eloquencc are not the same;
to speak, and to speak well, are two things.
TO speak evil of a person whom you have
ceased to love is to at once belittle yourself.
A man can frequently polish his boots
with better grace than he can polish his
manners.
Many a tramp would be thankful for
cold ham, but none of them relish the cold
shoulder.
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of
health, and as friendly to the mind as to
the body.
When we experience the desire to be ca
ressed we comprehend the necessity of be
ing amiable.
As riches forsake a man we discover him
to be a fool; but nobody could find it out in
his prosperity.
In infancy a single joy s~catters all the
annoyance; in old age a single annoyance
banishes all the joys.
No evil propensity of the human heart
is so powerful that it may not be subdued
by strict discipline.
Humility, sweet as it may be as a trait
of character, may degenerate into vice, if
not upheld by self-respect.
He that, to the best of his power, has Sc
cured the final stake, has a perennial
fountain of joy within him.
The verb ''to be happy" has neither pres
ent, past nor future. 1t should always be
corrugated in the conditional.
A false friend is like a shadow on the
dial it appears in clear weather, but van
ishes as soon as a cloud approaches.
AS the sword of the best-tempered metal
is most flexible, SO the truly generous are
If you nave built castles in the air, your
work need not be lost. That is where they
should be but put foundations under
them.
There are a good many real miseries in
life that we cannot help smiling at, but
they are the smiles that make wrinkles but
not dimples.
1t is the way with half the truth amidst
which we live, that it only haunts us and
makes dull pulsations that are never born
into sound.
Happiness is not outside, but inside. A
good heart and a clear conscience bring
happiness, which no riches and no circum-
stances alone ever do.
Better the chance of a shipwreck on a
voyage of high purpose than expend life i'll
padding hither and thither on a shallow
stream to no purpose at all.
Honest good humor is the oil and wine of
a merry meeting, and there is no jovial
companionship equal to that where the
Jokes are rather small and the laughter
abundant.
Sincerity is an openness of heart; it's
found in a very few people, and that which
we see commonly is not it, but a subtitle
discrimination to gain the confidence OF
others.
There is nothing which helps us to feel
that our lives nave been worth living so
much as the humble but grateful conscious
ness that we have helped some other
soul to fill its destiny.
A smooth sea can never make a skilltul
mariner; neither do uninterrupted pros
perity and success qualify for usefuless-
ness and happiness. The storms of adj
versity like the storms of the ocean,,
arouse the faculties and excite the
invention, prudence, skill and fortitude OF
the voyager.