San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-09-01
MULTUM IN PARVo.


Honorable descent is in all ma
tons greatly esteemed. 1t is to be
expected that the children of men
of worth will be like their progen-
itors, for nobility is the virtue of a
family Aristotle.
To think we are able is almost to
be so; to determine on attainment
is frequently attainment itself.
Earnest resolution has often
seemed to have about it almost a
SAVIOR of omnipotence.-[S. Smiles.
We can never see this world in
it's true light unless we consider
our life in it as state of discipline
"a condition through which we
are passing to prepare for another.
I y. w. Alexander.
Luck generally comes to those
who look after it; and my notion
is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at
everybody's door, but if industry
does not open it luck goes away.
-[Spurgeon.
The faults of Bonaparte were
rather those of the sovereign and
politician than of the individual.
1t was the inOrdinate force of am
bitiOn which made him the scourge
of Europe; it was his efforts to dis
guise that selfish principle that
made him combine fraud with
force, and establish regular sys-
tenn for deciving those whom he
could not subdue. Had his natu-
raj disposition been coldly cruel,
like that of Octavius, or had he
given way to the warmth of his
temper, like other despots, his pri-
vate history, as well as that of his
campaigns, must have been written
in letters of blood.-[Sir Walter
Scott.
Some people eXclaim, "Give me
no anecdotes of an author, but
give me his works, and yet l have
often found that the anecdotes are
more interesting than the works.
[Disraeli.
Garrick showed johnson his fine
house, gardens, statues, pictures,
etc. at Hampton Court. "Ah
David, David" said the Doctor,
"these are the things that make
death terrible"
My terms for a lecture, when l
stay over night, are $50 and ex-
penses, a room with a fire in it, in
a public house, and a mattress to
sleep on-not a feather bed. l am
afraid to sleep in a cold room; l
can't sleep on a feather bed; 4 will
not go to private houses, and l
have fixed upon the sum men,
toned as what it is worth for me
to go away for the night to places
that can not pay more.-tDr. o. W..
Holmes, 1850.
Credit is like a looking glass,
which, when once sullied by a
breath, may be wiped clear again;
but if once crushed can never be
repaired.-[ Walter Scott.
True courage is calm and cool.
The bravest of men have the
least of a brutal, bullying inso-
lence, and in the very time of dan
ger are found the most serene and
free.-[Shaftsbury.
She who finds her self-esteem
only in admiration, depends on
others for her daily food and is the
servant of her slaves. Joanna
Bailie.
If thou take delight in idle argu-
mentation thou mayest be quail
fled to combat with the sophists,
but will never know how to live
with men, Socrates.
Occupation is one great source of
enjoyment. No man, properly oc-
cupied, was ever miserable.-[L. E.
Landon.
We, ignorant Of ourselves, beg
often our own harms, which the
wise powers deny us for our good.
shakespeare.
An able man shows his spirit by
gentle words and resolute action.
He is neither hot nor timid-[Ches-
terrified.
There is not in nature a thing
that make man so deformed, so
beastly, as doth incorporate anger.