Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-01-14
CHOICE EXCERPTS.

NEVER attempt more tEan you can
do; he who attempts everything he can
do often attempts more than he can do.
THERE are people who probably think
their heads were made for wearing
crowns, every time they look into look
ing glass.
WHEN Aristotle was asked what a
man could gain by telling falsehood,
he replied: "Not to be credited when ne
speaks the truth"
THE eve of the understanding is like
the eye of the sense; for as you may see
great objects through small crannies OF
holes, SO you may see great axioms OF
nature through small and contemplate
instances.
So manifold are the bearings of money
upon the lives and characters of man.
kind that an insight which should search
out the life of man in his pecuniary re-
lations would penetrate into almost ev-
cry Granny OF his nature.
HONOR is unstable, and seldom the
same; for she feeds upon opinion and IS
as tickle as her food. She builds lofty
structure on the sandy foundation of the
esteem of those who are, of all beings,
J the most subject to change.
b ACCUsToM girls to be of service in the
, household, to regard economy as praise
!; yorthy and even heroic, and to add to
,ic sdir accomplishment practical knowl-
,nSe,e of work. Such girls, when portion
will carry to their husband dow
- in themselves.
BECAUSE people are rich they are not
of necessity ogres. Because they are
born gentlemen and ladies of good de-
gree, are in easy circumstances, and
have a generous education, it does not
follow that they are heartless and will
turn their back On friend.
ARIsTHENEs wondered at mankind,
that in buying an earthen dish they
were careful 20 sound it, lest it had a
crack; yet so careless in choosing friends
as to take them flawed with vice. How
few persons at this day would discover
and apply so striking an analogy.
A HUMAN soul without education is
like marble in a quarry. which shows
nothing of its inherent beauties until the
skill of the polisher fetches out the col
ors, makes the surface shine, and discov-
ers every ornamented cloud, spot and
vein that runs through the body of it.
THE only conclusive evidence of a
mans sincerity is that he gives himself
for principle. Words, money, all
things else are comparatively easy to
give away; but when man makes gift
of his daily life and practice it is plain
that the truth, whatever it may be, has
taken possession of Linn.
: In the conduct of life, habits count for
aimore than maxims, because habit is a
living maxim, becomes flesh and instinct.
To reform ones maxims is nothing; it is
but to change the title of book. To
learn new habits isSyerything, for it is
. to reach the substance of life. Life is
but tissue of habits.
AS there can always be found in this
world plenty of things to find fault with,
so there can always be found an untold
number of blessings. Never stop to
worry because some people are better off
than you are; rather keep your hearts
full of thankfulness because you are so
much better off than are thousands of
other human beings.
THERE is another name given to a
duty; we sometimes call it virtue. If one
tells the truth when it gives him pain to
tell the truth, we say that he acts vir-
tuously. And we also say that he is a
virtuous person. A good principle in us
is virtue. A right thing which good
principle bids us to do is virtuous con-
duct.
THE vanity which throws out hints,
and the garrulity which abhors silence,
and the fippancy which spurns restraint,
are all poor and mean characteristics
which every right minded man and wom-
an will be on the watch to control. Even
the entire frankness with which some
people discuss their own Al. .irs forms
no precedent for discussing those of an
other. The right to do the former is un-
questionable, though its wisdom may
often be doubted; but the latter is neither
right nor kind.
FORECAST, which is prudence in par
ticular shape, is valuable quality, and
one in which some yonng people are Ia
mentally deficient. Those who possess
it can perform twice the work, with half