Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-08-01

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selves in the little daily occurrences of
life
There is no policy like politeness; and
good manner is the best thing in the
world, either to get good name, or sup
ply the want of it.
CHOICE EXCERPTS.
IF we could use our own advice how
happy we would be,
THOSE in the wrong use hard words
and soft arguments; those in the right
use soft words and hard arguments.
AFFECTION can no more be pounded
into an animal than into human be-
ing. Kind treatment will insure it.
THERE are two classes of people in
this world: those who make fools of
themselves, and those who don't need to.
IT is well that the book of life is open
ed to us page by page. Were all the
hard lines barred at once the task would
be too hard to master.
WE wish we could hear no more de-
| fences of roughneSs and boldness. Gen
tleness of manner is so excellent thing
it should be prOverbial everywhere.
CUNNING is none of the best nor worst
qualities; it floats between virtue and
vice; there is scarce any exigency where
it may not and perhaps ought not to be
supplied by prudence.
MEN of few words are generally safe
counsellOrs and safe friends where they
profess to be such. Words without point,
to them, are like titles without merit,
only betraying weakness.
WE celebrate nObler Obsequies to those
we love by drying the tears of others
than by shedding their own; and the
fairest funeral wreath we can hang on
the tomb is not so fair as fruit offer
ing of good deeds.
CONTENT not thyself that thou art
virtuous in general; for one link being
wanting, the chain is defective. Per-
haps thou art rather innocent than virtu-
Gus, and owest more to thy constitution
than to thy religion.
CULTIVATION does not deprive us of
manly strength. The symmetrical col
umn is not less strong because it is
graceful; the block of granite is as use
full and firm beneath the chisel as in all
its native ruggedness.
ONE of the sureSt evidences of friend |
ship that an individual can display to
another, is telling him gently of fault.
If any other can excel it, it is listening
to such disclosure with gratitude and
amending the error.
"PoLITENEss," says famous writer,
sis real kindness kindly expressed;" an
admirable definition, and so brief that |
all may easily remember it. This is the
sum and substance of all true politeness.
Put it in practice, and all will be charm
ed with your manners.
THE most insignificant people are
the most apt to sneer at others. They
are safe from reprisals, and have no
hope of rising in their own esteem but
by lowering their neighbors. The Sc
verest critics are always those who have
either never attempted, or who have
failed in original composition.
SOME men use words as rifemen use
bullets. They say but little. The few
words used go right to the mark. They
let you talk, and guide with their eyes
and face, on and on, till what you say
can be answered in word or two, then
they lance out sentence, pierce the ;
matter to the quick, and are done.
HONESTY being virtue having many
shades of meaning, and which, in its
highest sense, is lofty and delicate per-
ception of truthfulness and sincerity,
must naturally be more keenly develop
ed in cultivated than coarse mind. {
1t is fostered by other virtues, and is {
amid the true graces of the
gentleman.
RELIGION consists not in nice Or
thodoxy, but in sincere love of truth:
in hearty appreciation of, and compli-
ance with, the doctrines fundamentally J
good; but in vain f1ourishes of outward
performance, but in an inward good t
of mind; not furious zeal t
for or against trivial circumstances, but
in considerable practicing the sub '
stantial parts of religion.
TIRE man of letters, when compared l
with one who is illiterate, exhibits near !
" the same contrast as that which ex- :
sts between blind man and one that G
can see; and if we consider how much 1
literature enlarges the mind, and how d
much it multiplies, adjusts, rectifies and '
arranges the ideas; it may well be reck- L
)ned equivalent to an additional sense. S
1t affords pleasures which wealth cannot .
procure, and which poverty cannot en- +
,irely take away. q
He who has never lost himself in the
delighted labyrinths to which old books
cad him; he who has never been spell
pound by the arch magicians that, age =,
lfter age, have offered themselves as his ;,
amiliars-he who has never drank of
he sweet waters that with an everlast-
ng freshness flow from the undefiled a
ountain of English literature, can a
carcely imagine the pleasure and the Il
luxury which the gathering of knowl- b
dge, like the gathering of dewy and i
dorous roses for the bouquet, fills the a
mind. 1t is labor that demands little =
nore than love after all, and, being Ia r. +,
or of love, we have more faith in that a
impulse than in any pencraft we pos n
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