San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-10
MULTUM IN PARVo.

W Z llINt III NltdlllS llO true per
, ceptiOn Of time-a strange proper
ty of mind?-for if such be also its
property when entered into the
eternal diSCmbOdied state, time
will appear to us eternity! The
| relations of space as well as of time
are also annihilated, 50 that while
almost an eternity is compressed
into a moment, infinite space is
traVersed more swiftly than by real
thought WinslOw.
How often it is difficult to be
wisely charitable-tO do good with
out multiplying the sources of
evil. To give aims is nothing uni
less you give thought also. 1t is
written, not "blessed is he tina!
feedeth the poor" but "blessed is
he that cOnsidereth the poor" \
little thought and a little kindness
are often worth more than great
deal of money Ruskin.
Pleasure is one of those cOmmod-
tiles which are sold at a thousand
shops, and bought by thousand
customers, but of which nobody
ever fairly finds possession. Either
they know not we'll how to use, or
the commodity will not keep, for
no one has ever yet appeared to be
satisfied with his bargain. 1t is too
subtle for transition, though sut1i-
GENTLY solid for sale.-Simms.
1t is a shallow criticism that
would define poetry as confined
to literary productions in rhyme
and metre. The written poem is
only poetry talking, and the statue,
| the picture and the musical COM
position are poetry acting. Milton
| and Goethe, at their desks, We're
not more truly poets than Phidias
with his chisel, Raphael at his
| easel, or deaf Beethoven bending
over his piano, inventing and pro-
dTcing strains which he himself
could never hope to hCar.-RuSllin
There is that in theatrical rep
| reSentatiOn which awakcnS what
ever romance belongs to our char
acter. The magic lights, the pomp
of scene, the fair, false, exciting
life that is detailed before us,
| crOwding into some three short
| hours all our most busy ambition
could dcsire-all these appeals to
| our senses are not made in vain.
Our tastes for castle building and
| visions deepen upon us, and we
chew a mental opium which stag
| l,A NJ hn1 fn lIIt IL
that Of the ideal.-Bulwcr.
If thou be bound for a stranger,
| thou art Il fool; if for merchant,
| thou putteSt thy estate to learn to
swim; if for lawyer, he will find
an evasion by syllable or word &;
| if for poor man, thou must pay it
| myself; if for a rich man, he needs
| it not; therefore, from Suretyship,
as from a manSlayer or enchanter,
bless myself; for the best return
| will be this-if thou force him for
whom thou art bound to pay it
| himself he will become thy enemy;
if thou pay it thysplf, thou wilt be-
come a brggar.-I Sir Walter RAJ
leigh.
Consider what you have, in the
smallest chosen library. a COM
| pany of the wisest and wittiest
men that could be picked out Of all
civil countries, in a thousand
years, have set in best order the
results of their learning and wis
| dom. The men themselves were
| hid and inaccCSSiblp, solitary, i'm
patient of interruption, fenced by
etiquette; but the thought
which they did not uncover to
their bosom friend, is here written
out in transparent words to us, the
strangers of another age Elmer
son.
rorrc aim nI pT1STNESS