San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-29

so far as can be done in consistence
with probity and honor Perez
val.
Mature affection, homage, de-
vOtion, does not easily express it
self. It's voice is low. 1t is modest
and retiring; it lays in ambush
and waits. Such is the mature
fruit. Sometimes a life glides away,
and find it still ripening in the
shade. The light inclinations of
very young people are as dust
compared to rOcks.--Dickens.
Let not thy table exceed the
fourth part of thy revenue-let thy
provisions be solid, and not far
fetched, fuller of substance than
art; be wisely frugal in thy pre-
paration, and freely cheerful in
thy entertainment; if thy guests
be right, it is enough; if not, it is
too much; too much is a vanity,
enough is a feast.-LQuarles.
When | reflect, as | frequently
do, upon the felicity | have en-
| iOyed, | sometimes say to myself
that, were the offer made me, |
would engage to run again, from
beginning to end, the same career
of life. All | would ask should be
the privilege of an author to cor
rect in second edition, certain
errors of the first.-Franklin
A tutor should not be continual
ly laundering instruction into the
ears of his pupil, as if he We're
pouring it through funnel, but
induce him to think, to distinguish,
and to find out things for himself;
sometimes paving the way, at
other times leaving it for him to
open; and so accommodate his pre-
cepts to the capacity of his pu-
pill Montague.
America has proven that it is
practicable to elevate the mas Of
mankind--the lObOring of lower
claSS--tO raise them to SelfreSpect,
to make them competent to act
part in the great right and the
great duty of self-gOvernment;
and she has proven that this may
be done by education and the diff
fusion of knowledge. She holds
out an example thousand times
more encouraging than ever was
presented before to those nine
tenths of the human race who are
born without hereditary fortune
or hereditary rank.--Daniel Web
Ster.
1t is delicious moment, certain
ly, that of being we'll nestled in
bed, and feeling that you shall
drop gently to sleep. The good is
to come, not past; the limbs are
tired enough to render the remain
ing in one posture delightful;
the labor of the day is gone.
A gentle failure of the percep-
tiOnS creeps over you; the
spirit Of consciousness disengages
itself once more, and with slow
and hushing degrees, like mother
detaching her hand from that of a
sleeping child, the mind seems to
have balmy lid closing over it,
like the eye-it is clOsed-the mys-
FERROUS spirit has gone to take its
airy rounds Leigh Hunt.
The whole commerce between
master and slave is a perpetual
exercise of the most bOisterOus
passions; the most unremitting
despOtism on the one part, and de-
grading submission on the other.
The man must be prodigy who
can retain his manners and morals
undepraved by such circumstances.
The hour of emancipation must
come; but whether it will be
brought on by the generous encr-
gies of our own minds or by the
bloody scenes of San Domingo is
leaf in our history not yet turned
over. The almighty has no attri-
butte which can take sides with us
in such a contest.
In all history it would be diff
| cult to find reign less illustriOus,
yet more unSpOtted and unblem-
ished, than that of James |. in
both Kingdoms. Many virtues he
was possessed of, but scarce any of
them pure, or free from the cOnta-
gion of the neighbOring vices. His
generosity bordered on profusion,
his learning on pedantry, his paci-
fic disposition on pusillanimity,
his wisdom on cunning, his friend
ship on light fancy and bOyish
ish fOndness. His capacity
was considerable, but fit
to discourse on general maxims
than to conduct any intricate bust
ness; his intentions We're just, but
mora adanta6 to tho conduot Of