Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-05-15

| IHE greatest wealth. IS cOnUentmenJ
with little.
OF all thieves fools are the worst;
they rob you of time and temper.
If there is person to whom you feel
dislike, that is the person of whom you
ought never to speak.
ONE man lies in his words, and gets a
bad reputation; another in his manners,
and enjoys good one.
REMORsE of conscience is like an old
wound; man is in no condition to fight
under such circumstances.
WHATEVER discoveries we may have
made in the region of self-love, there
still remain many unknown lands.
IT is a law as old as time and as en-
during as eternity that we are depend
ent upon one another in social and in
tellectual matters.
EVERY man who rises above the COM
mon level receives two educations; the
first from his instructors; the second, the
most personal and important, from him
self.
THERE is no royal road to learning or
to virtue-nO short cut or fairy y-given
aid or magic art to lessen toll. The on
ly royal road to the perfected powers of
the mind and character is by the way of
endeavor.
NOTHING hinders the constant agree
ment of people who live together but
vanity and seliishness. Let the spirit of
humility and benevolence prevail, and
discord and disagreement would be ban
ished from the household.
"THE older 1 grow" says Loves, 'sthe
more clearly see that intellect is not
the highest faculty in man, although the
most brilliant. Goodness, loving kind
ness, and quiet self-sacritice are worth
all the talents in the world"
As the happiness conferred by CRATE
full appreciation and glad responsiveness
is as real as any that exists, whoever
grudgingly withholds is as really selfish
in so doing as the miser who clutches
his gold when men are starving around
him.
HAPPINESS is like mama. 1t is to be
gathered in grains and enjoyed every
day; it will not keep; it connot be accu-
mulated; nor need we go out of ourselves
or into remote places to gather it, since
it is rained down from Heaven at our
very doors, or rather within them.
PEOPLE sometimes talk of Time as
Time the healer. 1t is very old COM
monplace, aud it is not at all true. Time
cannot heal anything; Time can only
destroy. Time destroys regret and re-
membrance and kindness and affection,
just as the dentist deadens the nerve.
LOVE has all variations in its quality,
from the selfish and self-seeking pas
sion than in its sacred name would sac
rifice the happiness and the welfare of
its object, up to the purest affection of
the devoted mother who would secure
the good of her child at any personal
cost.
THE noble and the pure are fond of
the home of their childhood and with
those who sat with them round its old
fire place. That man is to be distrusted
who loves not his brother; and the wom-
an who loves not her sister, except in
rare peculiar instances, a woman who is
not herself beloved.
THE more we are in the habit of re-
flecting upon the right or wrong of our
actions, the stronger will be our inclina
tion to do right land the more scrupulous-
ly we do right, the more easily shall we
be able to distinguish between right and
wrong The oftener we do good actions,
the greater happiness we receive from
doing them.
No one should underrate the inevita-
BILE sorrows of life, nor deny to them the
sympathy and loving aid which should
ever be extended to them; but perma-
nent misery cannot be regarded with
very much respect. 1t certainly speaks
of very grave defects in character, of
faults that need pruning away, of fee
BILE qualities that need stimulating.
THE worker who brings out the best
results is not the one who has thirsted
for public applause, but the one who has
sought to climb summit too high for
the populace even to see. He finds it
comparatively easy to satisfy others, but