San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-10-26

tending to the beauty Of colors,
rather than selecting such cOlors
as may increase their own beauty.
Il Shenstone.
Epicurus says "gratitude is a
virtue that has commonly profit
annexed to it," And where is the
virtue is to be valued for itself,
and not for the profit that attends
it. Seneca.
Conversation warns the mind,
enlivens the Imagination, and is
continually starting fresh game
that is Immediately pursued and
J taken, which would never have
occurred in the duller intercourse
of epistolary correspondence
| Franklin.
Poetry, good sir, in my opinion,
is like a tender virgin, very young
and extremely beautiful, whom
divers other virgins-namely, all
! the other sciences-make it their
business to enrich, polish and
adOrn; and to her it belongs to
make use of them all CerVantes.
We can easily manage, if we will
only take each day the burden APP
pointed for it. But the load will
be too heavy for us if we carry
Yesterdays burden over again to-
day, and then add the burden OF
the morrow to the weight before
we are required to bear it. John
Newton.
Intellectual effort in the early
years of life isvery injurious. All
labor of mind required of child
rem before the 18th year is in Oppos-
itiOn to the laws of nature, and
will prove injurious to the physi'
cal organization and prevent its
proper and mature Development
| Hufeland.
Good character is human nature
in it's best form. 1t is moral order
mbodied in the individual. Men
of character are not only the con
science of society, but in every
well-governed state they are its
best motive power; for it is moral
qualities, which, in the main, rule
the world.-[S. Smiles.
Strange is the power of dreams
Who has not felt, when in the
morning light such visions melt
how the yelled soul, though strug
Cling to be free, ruled by that deep
unfathomed mystery, wakes
haunted by the Thoughts of gooc
or i'll, whose shading influence pur
sues us still?-[ Mrs. Norton.
There is nothing that wears Out
fine face like the vigils of the
card table and those cutting pas
sions which naturally attend them
Hollow eyes, haggard looks anC
pale compilations are the natura
indications of female gamestel
Her morning sleeps are not able tt
repay her midnight watchings.-
Steele.
Society can not exist unless ;
controlling power upon will an(
appetite be placed somewhere ant
the less of it there is within, tn
more there must be without. 1t i
ordained, in the eternal cOnstitu
ton of things that men of intern
perate minds can not be free
Their passions forge their fetters.-
Burke.
Those who, in the confidence O
supurior capacities or attachments
neglect the common maXims @
life, should be reminded that moth
: ing will supply the want Of pru
, dence; but that negligence an
irregularity, long continued vii
= make knowledge useless, wit ridiC
ulOus and genius contemptible.-
3 johnson.
: Actions, looks, words, steps, forr
: the alphabet by which you ma
spell characters, some are mel
/ letters, some entire words, line
4 pages, which at once decipher tn
r life Of man. One such genuin
: uninterrupted page may be you
: key to all the rest, but first be ce
tain that he wrote it all alone, an
: without thinking Of publisher
reader IaVater,