The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-07-20
GATHERED GEMS.
Compiled for THE SUNDAY CALL.

D
IL AThat have fallen from pens of sages-prophets,
1<EJ heroes everywhere;
may be seen,
While the memory of the writers in our hearts keep
fresh and green.
The best education in the world is that
got by struggling to get liylng.-Wendell
Phillips.
Sometimes noble failure serves the
world as faithfully as distinguished sue
cess.-Dowden.
knowledge is the only fountain both of
love and the principles Of human liberty
Daniel Webster.
All passions are good when one masters
them; all are bad when one is slave to
them.-Rousseau.
For one man who can stand prosperity,
| there are q hundred who will stand ad-
| versity.-Carlisle.
cannot regard wealth as blessing to
those who use it simply as harvest for
this w0rld.-GeOrge Eliot.
Every good act is charity. A mans true
| wealth hereafter is the good that he does in
this world to his observation-disclosures
The true test of civilization is not the
| census nor the size of the cities nor the
| crops-no, but the kind of men the country
turns out.-Emerson.
The supreme happiness of life is the con-
viction that we are loved-lOved for our
selves; say rather, loved in spite of our
selveS.-Victor Hugo.
Defer not charities till death, for cer-
| tainly if q man weigh it rightly, he that
| doth so is rather liberal of another mans
| than his oWn.-Bacon.
Every man is dishonest who lives upon
the unpaid labor of others. no matter
| whether he occupies Thu one or lives in a
| OOr-hOuSe.-ColGnel Ingersoll.
Teach self-denial and make its practice
pleasurable, and you create for the world a
destiny more sublime than ever issued from
the brain Of the widest dreamer.-Walter
| Scott.
Put your foot down where you mean to
| stand, and let no man move you from the
| right. Learn to say mo" and it will be of
more use to you than to be able to read
| Latin.-Spurgeon.
We cannot overestimate the feryent love
OF liberty, the intelligent courage and the
| saving common sense, with which our faith
| erS made the great experiment of self-gOy-
ernment.-Garfield.
Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal
| in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the
| purse, credit in the country, cOnrentment in
| the house, clothes on the back and vigor in
the body.-Franklin.
II you would realize higher form of reli-
glon you must first broaden the horizon of
woman's thought, and give us an active in
terest in all the principal affairs of life
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Far away there in the sunshine are ny
| highest aspirations. | cannot reach them,
| but can look up and see their beauty,
| believe in them, and try to follow where
| they lead.-Louise NJ. Alcott
We want to grow toward greater perfec-
| ton in all tile departments of life. We
| want higher types of government, ulster
| systems OF industry and nUbler patterns Of
| the household and the hOme.-W u. Sater
There is only one cure for the evils which
| newly acquired freedom produces, and that
- = frppHnn- | Nal IN ,,fr for
! liberty till they become wise and good in
| slavery, they may indeed wait fOrever.-Lord
| Macaulay.
1t was the policy of the good old gentle
man to make his children feel that home
| was the happiest place in the world: and
value this delicious home feeling as one of
the choicest gifts parent can bestow.-
| Washington Irving.
| There is nothing so delightful as the
hearing and speaking of truth. For this
| reason there is no conversation so agree
able as that OF the man of integrity, who
| hears without any Intention to betray, and
| speaks without any intention to deceive
| Plato.
| The human race is but monOtonOus
affair. Most of them labor the greater part
| Of their time for mere subsistence; and the
| scanty portion OF freedom which remains to
them so troubles them that they use every
eXertion to get rid Of it. Oh, the destiny of
| man Goethe.
| Who are the men whom the world de-
| lighteth to honor? Certainly not the mill
ionaires. The world is not at the trouble
| OF preserving catalogue of their names
"the rich man died and was buried; what
more has society 10 say about him ?-n.
| St0well Brown.
The entire object of true education is to
make people not merely do the right things,
but enjoy the right things; not merely In
dustrlous, but to love industry; not merely
| learned, but to love knowledge; not merely
| pure, but to love purity; not merely lust.
| but to hunger and thirst after Justice
| RuskiD.
Good men. you know. pay all the taxes of
bad men. Virtuous men pay the State bills
of disspated men. Patriotic men pay all
the war bills of unDatrotic men. Citizens
| that stay at home pay the expenses of poli-
ticans that 20 racketing about the country
| and do nothing but mischief-Henry Ward
| Beecher.
Life is made up of little things, in which
smiles and kindness given habituaily are
what win and preserve the heart and secure
| comfort.
Oh! what glory doth this world put on
For him who with a fervid heartgoes forth
| Under the bright and glorious sky and looks
| On duties well performed and days well spent.
| -Longfellow.
1t is an old saying that charity begins at
| home, but this no reason it should not 20
abroad; man should live with The world
| as cltlZen OF The world; he may have a
| preference for the particular quarter or
! square, or even alley in which lie lives, but
he should have generous feeling for the
welfare of the whole.-Cum5e rland
A man may be heroic in the truth; and if
| he believes things only because his pastor
says so, or the assembly so determines,
without knowing other reason, though his
belief be true, yet the very truth he holds
becomes his heresy. There is not any bur-
den that some would gladlier put off TO an
| other than the care and charge of their
| reiigion.-John Milton.
You may live simple, manly lives, speak
ing your own thought, paying your own
way, and doing your own work, whatever
that may be. You will remain gentlemen
as long as you follow these rules. if you
have to sweep crossing for your liveli-
hood. You will not remain gentlemen in
anything but the name if you depart from
them, though you may be set to govern a
/ 1. daIa Eln..a Hun