San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-22

| W nile we converse with what is
above us, we do not grow old, but
grow young Emerson.
Misfortune makes of certain
souls vast desert through which
rings the voice of Cod Balzac.
OF the kings creation you may
be; but he who makes a count
ne'er made man. Southern.
Fate is the friend of the good, the
guide of the wise, the tyrant of the
| foolish, the enemy of the bad w,
r. Alger.
Do not allow idieness to deceive
you; for while you give him to-
day, he steals tomorrow from you.
-LCrowquill.
Trust him with little who, with
out proofs, trusts you with every
thing, or when he has proved you,
with nothing Lavater.
Men possessing minds which are
morose, solemn and intieXible, en-
joy, in general, a greater share of
dignity than of happiness. -Ba-
con.
Still his tongue ran on; the less
weight it bore with greater ease;
and with its everlasting clack, set
all mems ears upon the rack
Samuel Butler.
a wilful falsehOOd told is
cripple, not able to stand by itself
without another to support it. 1t
is easy to tell lie, but hard to tell
only one lie.-Fuller.
1t is great dishOnor to religion
to imagine that it is an enemy to
mirth and cheerfulness, and a Sc
we're eXacter of penSiVe looks and
solemn faces.-Walter Scott.
The good things of life are not to
be had singly, but come to us in a
mixture, like a schOOl-bOys hOli-
day, with a-task affixed to the tail
of it Charles Lamb.
In the age of acorns, before the
time of Ceres, single barley-cOrn
had been of more value to man
kind than all the diamonds of the
mines of India II. Brooke.
Say not 81 have done good with
what is mine" You give of that
which has been lent you; you
ought to render thanks to God
for enabling you to do good Tai
mud.
Do today's duty, fight today's
| tenn ptatiOn. DO not weaken and
distract yourself looking forward
to things you can not see, and could
not understand if you saw
Charles Kingsley.
The best time to frame and an
sWer to the letters of a friend is the
moment you receive them; then
the warmth of friendship and the
intelligence received most fOrcibly
cooperate ShenstOne.
never knew a genius yet WHO
did not carry about him, either in
face or person, or in certain mex
plicable grace of manner, the pat
ent of nobility which heaven has
bestowed upon him. The Ogil-
VieS.
Do not train boys to learning by
force and harShneSS; but direct !
them to it by what amuseS their /
minds, so that you may be the
better able to discover with ac-
curacy the peculiar bent of the
genius of each.-Plato-
Refrain tonight, and that shall
lend a kind of easinesS to the next |
abstinence; the next more easy;
for use almost can change the |
stamp of nature, and either curb
the devil or throw him out with
wondrOus potency.-Shakspeare.
For want of self restraint many
men are engaged all their lives in
fighting with difficulties of their
own making, and rendering sue
cess impossible by their own cross
grained gentleness; whilst
others, it may be much less gift
ed, make their way and achieve
success by simple equanimity and
patience.-Smiles.
The king is but man, as l am
the violet smells to him as it doth
to me; the element shows to him
as it doth to me; all his senses
have but human conditions; his
laid by, in his naked
ness he appears but man; and
though his affections are higher
mounted than Ours,yet, when they
stoop, they stOOp with the like
Shakespeare.