Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-03-10
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

HAPPY is the man who renounces
everything which may bring strain ol
burden upon his conscience.
In my youth | thought of writing
satire on mankind; but now, in my age,
think | should wIi.e an apology for
them.
LET us Lave faith that right make
might, and in that faith lei us to the
end dare to do our duty as we under
stand it.
WE should enjoy no peace II we did
not busy ourselves with the words and
deeds of other men, which appertain not
10 our charge.
LABOR is discovered to be the great
the grand conquerer, enriching and
building up nations more surely than
the proudest battles.
MARRIAGE is the strictest tie of per
petual friendship; and there can be nc
friendship without confidence, and no
confidence without integrity.
ALL the knowledge that we mortals
can acquire is not knowledge positive
but knowledge comparative, and subject
to the errors and passions of humanity.
NEITHER wisdom, nor personal purl
ty, nor authoritity, nor elequence, nor
any ordinary gift of the human mind, is
to be compared for power for sympa-
thy.
NOTHING sharpcns the arrow of sar-
casm so keenly as the courtesy that pol.
ishes it; no reproach is like that We
clothe with smile and present with a
bow.
THE body, overcharged with the ex.
cess of yesterday, weighs down the mind
and depresses to the earth any portion
of the divine spirit we had been endow-
ed with.
THE man who journeys through this
world with his eyes open will learn things
every day for nothing that other people
have had to 60 without butter on their
bread TO find out.
SURELY nobody can always know
what is right. Yes. you always can fol
to-day; and if you do what you see OF
it to-day. you viii. see more of it and
more clearly tomorrow.
How easy it is for one benevolent be-
ing to diffuSe pleasure around him; and
how truly is kind heart a fountain ol
gladness, making everything in its vi
cinity to freshen into smiles!
OUR attainments, our qualities, oul
value, can be judged only relatively. II
is only as they compare with those ol
other people, or with some imaginary
ideal, that they can be called strong OIL
weak, good or evil, high or low.
THERE is no benefit 80 large but ma
dignity will still lesson it none so mar
row which a good Interpretation will moi
enlarge. No man can ever be grateful
who views benefit ON the wrong side
or takes a good Office by the wrong han
die.
A HUMAN soul without education il
like marble in the quarry, which show!
none of its inherent beauties till tht
skill of the polisher fetches out the col
ors, makes the surface shine, and dis
covers every ornamental cloud, spot ant
vein that runs through the body of it.
If we take people as we find them
welcoming all their good points ant
passing over the others, and being kin(
and generous to all, we shall come mucl
nearer to the truth about them than i
we labor to make critical analysis o.
minds and hearts of which we can Sc,
but few fragments.
In the conduct of life, habits coun
for more than maxims, because habit i
living maxim, becomes flesh and in
stinct. To reform ones maxims is moth
ing; it is but to change the title of
book. To learn new habits is everything
for it is to reach the substance of life
Life is but tissue of habits.
WERE men so enlightened and studi
ious of their own good as to act by tn
dictates of their reason and reflection
and not the opinion of Others, conscience
would be the ready ruler of human life
and the words truth, law, reason, equit
and religion could be but synonymou
terms for that only guide which make
us pass our days in our own favor an
appreciation.