San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-04-29
The Daily Eight.
SATURDAY, APRIL %, 1898
MULTUM IN PARVo.

Inc secret OF success is COllSldu-
cy of purpOse.-L Disraeli.
I do pity unlearned gentlemen
on a rainy day Falkland.
The secret of education lies in
respecting the pupil Emerson.
He who knows only his own side
of the case knows little of that -.
Stuart Mill.
Fear the bOisterous savage of
passion less than the sedatel y grin
ming villain.- Lavater.
The strength of the donkey mind
lies in adopting a course inversely
as the arguments urged George
Eliot.
When The soul resolves to per-
form every duty, Immediately it
is conscious of the presence of God.
Bacon.
We must never underValue any
person. The workman loves not to
have his work despised in his
presencG-De Sales.
On the whole sum- of human
life no small part is that which
consists of mans relations to his
country, and his feelings concern
ing it.--GladstOne.
1t is with diseases of the mind as
with those of the body, we are half
dead before we understand our dis
order. and half cured when we do.
-[Colton.
Through every rift of discovery
some seeming anomaly drops out
of the darkness, and falls, golden
link, into the great chain of order.
: f. II. Chaplin.
A priest is comedy if he be lean
a fOur-foOted beast is comely when
he is fat; man becOmeth cOmely
when he is wise, and a woman
when she hath a husband From
the Burmese.
Dissipation is absolutely a labor
when the round of Vanity Fair has
once been made; but fashion
makes us think lightly of toll, and
we describe the circle as mechani-
cally as a horse in a MILL Zim-
norman.
Dress yourself fine where others
are fine, and plain where others
are plain; but take care always
that your clothes are we'll made
and fit you, for otherwise they will
give you very awkward air.
= Chesterfield.
You may be invited to a ball or
dinner because YOU dance or tell a
good story; but no one since the
time of Queen Elizabeth has been
made cabinet minister or Lord
Chancellor for such reasons f..
PierepOnt.
The secret Of pleasing in CONVEX
satiOn is not to explain too much.
To say half, and leave a little for
diVinatiOn, is a mark of the good
opinion we have of others, and
nothing flatters their sclf-Iove
more ROuchefoucauld.
The worst things are perversiOns
of good things. Abused intellectu-
al gifts make the dangerous villain :
abused senSibilities make the ac-
complished tempter; abused atfec-
lions engender the keeneSt of all
misery.-James McCOsh.
Repetition is the mother not ONLY
of study, but also of education.
Like the frcscO painter, the teacher
lays cOlOrS on the wet plaster.
which ever fade away, and which
he must ever renew until they re-
main and brightly shine.-Jean
Paul Richter.
a man with a clear head. a GOOD
heart and an honest understands
ing will always write well; it is
owing either to muddy head, an
evil heart, or sophisticated intel
lect that men write badly, and sin,
either against reason, or goodness.
or slncerity-SOuthey.
The man of true quality is not
he who labels himself with genoa
logical tables, and lives on the re-
putatiOn of his fathers, but he in
whose conversation and behavior
there are no references and char
acteristics positively unaccount-
able except on the hypothesis that
his descent is pure and illustrious.
Theodore Parker.
Genuine and innocent wit is
surely the flavor of mind. Man
could not direct his way by plain
reason, and support his life by
tasteless food; but God has given
us wit, and flavor, and brightness,
and laughter, and perfumes, to en-
liven the days of mans pilgrimage,
and to charm his panied stems over