San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-02-20

i CerVanteS.
To be a mans own fool is bad
enough, but the vain man is ev-
erybody's.-[P Penn.
Our greatest glory is not in never
falling, but in rising every time
we fall Confucius.
War is a game, which, were
their subjects wise, kings would
not play at Cowper.
Strength is incomprehensible by
weakness, and, therefore, the more
terrible.-[ Hawthorne.
The tones of human voices are
mightier than strings of brass to
move the SOUL Kiopstock.
High stations tumult, not bliss
create. None think the great I'M
happy but the great.-Young.
TITS expectation makes blessing
dear; heaven were not heaven If we
knew what it were.-Suckling.
To mourn a mischief that Is past
and gone is the next way to draw
new mischief on.-Shakspear9.
Every duty which is hidden to
wait returns with seven fresh
duties at it's back.-[C. Kingsley.
Memory sometimes acts like an
old flint gun; it hangs fire, yet
ends by going off.-Charles Reade.
1t is not from nature, but from
education and habits, that our
wants are chiefly derived.-Field-
ing.
Self-conceit magnifies a fault be-
yond proportion, and sWells every
omission into an outrage Jeremy
Collier.
Before you can be said to know a
man you must have eaten 40 pounds
of salt in his company.-Eastern
Proverb.
Every poem, every history, every
Grafton, every picture, every statue,
is an experiment on human feeling.
i Macintosh.
Old minds are like old horses a;
you must exercise them If you wish
to keep them in working order.
Il John Adams.
There is no breathing man to
whom the alternatives OF right and
wrong are not continually present.
II w. f. Gladstone.
Whoever is out of patience is out
OF his soul. Men must not turn
bees, and kill themselves in sting
ing Others Bacon.
Philosophy consists not in airy
schemes or idle speCulations: the
rule and conduct of all social life
is her greatest province Thorn
son.
Dream not that helm and har-
ness are signs of valOr true. Peace
hath higher tests of manhood than
battles have ever KNOWN Whit
tier.
The purest treasure mortal
times afford is spOtless reputation;
that away, men are but gilded
loan of painted lay.[-Shakes-
peare.
Human wisdom is the aggregate
of all human experience, constant
ly accommodating, selecting, and re-
organizing its own Materials
IStOry.
Only experience can show how
salt the SAVIOR is Of others bread,
and how sad a path it is to climb
and descend Eanother's stairs
Dante. i5sB4a
The deepest ice which ever froZe
can only DER the surface close the
living stream lies quick below, and
flows, and can not cease to flow. =
Byron.
Some men possess means that
are great, but fritter them away in
the exclusion of conceptions that
are little; others who can form
great conceptions, attempt to
carry them into execution with
little means. These two descrip-
lions Of men might succeed if
united, but kept asunder, both fail.
1t is a rare thing to find a combin-
alton Of great means and OF great
conceptions in one m ind Col
ton.
No man has right to bring up
his children without surrounding
them with books, if he has the
means to buy them. 1t is wrong
to his family. Children learn to
read by being in the presence OF
books. The love Of knowledge
comes with reading and grows
upon it, and the love OF knowl-
edge, in a young mind, is almost a
warrant against the inferior ex-
element of passions and vices