San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-03-26
MULTUM IN PARVo.

Earnestness commands the re-
spect of mankind John Hall.
Words are an amazing barrier to
the reception of truth.-[Sydney
Smith.
Conceit may puff a man up,
but can never prop him up.[-
Ruskin.
Take not too short time, to
make a worldwide bargain in
shakespeare.
Honor to those whose words or
deeds thus help us in our daily
needs LongfellOw.
The silence often of pure inno-
cence persuades, when speaking
falls Shakespeare.
If you would have the nuptial
union last, let virtue be the bond
that ties it fast Howe.
The snowy lives its little hour ;
the true to aftertimes bears rap
lures ever new Goethe.
A smile is the color which love
wears, and cheerfullness and joy
these three H. w. Beecher.
He that can not forgive others
breaks the bridge over which he
himself must pass.-Herbert.
Who lives to nature rarely can
be poor; who lives to Fancy never
can be rich.-Edward Young.
We are ashamed of the sight of a
neutrality-suspicious. as we are shy
of poor relations-Charles Lamb.
One day at time! It's whole,
some rhyme; good one to live by,
d day at a time,-H, H, Jackson.
In every age there are few men
who hold the opinions of another
age, past or future-Charles Reade.
The essence of knowledge is hav-
ing it, to apply it; not having it,
to confess your ignorance.-Con-
fucius.
Let truth and falsehood prapple ;
whoever knew truth put to the
worse in fee and open encounter?
= Milton.
Every real and searching effort
at self-improvement is of itself a
lesson Of profound humility
Gladstone.
The two most engaging powers
of an author are, to make new
things familiar and familiar things
new johnson.
Every trait Of beauty may be re-
ferred to some virtue, as to limo
cence, candor, generosity, mOdesty
or herOism.- st. Pierre.
A mans nature runs either to
herbs or weeds; therefore, let him
seasonable water the one and de-
stroy the other Bacon.
The first main thing man has to
do in this world is to turn his pos
sibilities into powers, or to get
the use of himself.-[T.T. Mum
ger.
Serene will be our days and
bright and happy will our ma
ture be, when love is an unerr-
ing light, and joy her own security
i Wordsworth.
Next to Importance to freedom
and justice is popular education
without which neither justice mol
freedom can be permanently main
tained.-[ Garfield.
don't like those mighty fine
preachers who round off their sen
fences so beautifully that they are
sure to roll off the sinners con
SCIENCE Rawland Hill.
II were to say what | had real
ly been to the Germans in general
and to the young German poets il
prrticular, l should say had beel
their LiberatOr.-[ Goethe.
1t will be very generally foun
that those who s1eer habitually a
human nature, and effect to deE
pise it, are among its worst an
least pleasant samples Dickens
1t is a strange and sOlem
power which conscience WELD:
Conscience comes to us in lionel
hours. 1t wakens us in the nigh
1t stands at the side of the bed an
says, "Come, wake up, and lister
to me-" And there it holds us wit
remorseless eyes, James Stake
1t is the man OF voluntary {
, compelled leisure who mopes, an
pines, and thinks himself into til
madhouse or the grave. Motion
all natures law. Action is man
salvation, physical and menta
+ aIe only is truly wise who la!
himself out to work till life's late
, hour. and that is the man who wi