The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-07-05
WHAT THINKERS SAY.

Haoole do not lack strength; they lack
viu Hugo
Tha weak have remedies, the wise have
,ovs.-Young.
A man must become wise at his own ex-
He who seeks the truth should be Of no
country.-Voltaire.
When the stomach Is satisfied the food is
bitter-Swedish.
Iike virgin parchment. capable of any
inscript;on.
Ungratefulness is the very poison Of
manhood.-Sir. =. Sidney.
The youth of the soul Is everlasting and
eternity Is truth.-Richter.
wit IL the god of moments, but genius Is
the god of ages.-Bruyere.
The mind cOnceives with pain but 1t
brings forth with delight.-Joubert.
Nothing Is rarer than the use of a word
In its exact meaning.-Whipple.
Rich In mt epithets, blest in the lovely
marriage of pure words.-Brewer.
More water gldeth by the mill that wots
the miller of.-Shakespeare
All are born to observe good order, but
few are born to establish it.-JOubert.
Every man has Just as much vanity as
he wants understanding
A room hung with pictures is room
hung with thoughts.-Sir Joshua Rey-
nolds.
How true II Is there can be no tete-a-tete
where vanity reigns.-Mme. de Girardin.
To see and listen to the wicked is al
ready the beginning of wickedness.-Con-
fucius.
The sum of the world Is this: Walk
and be happy; walk and be healthy
Dickens.
Reproofs of q friend should always be
strictly just, and not too frequent.-Bud-
gell.
Zeal Is very blind or badly regulated,
when 1t encroaches upon the rights Of
others.-Quesnel.
Sslf-will is so ardent and active that 1t
will break world to pieces to make stool
to sit upon.-Cecil.
Unless q tree has borne blossoms in
spring, you will vanly lool, for fruit on 1t
in autumn-Hare.
A stray hair, by its continued irritation,
may give more annoyance than smart
blow.-Lowell.
1t Is but a step from companionship to
slavery when one associates with vice.
Hosea Ballou.
A cock, having found pearl, said that
a grain of corn would be of more value to
him.--LarOux.
Do what good thou canst unknown, and
be not vain of what ought rather to be
felt than seen.-William Penn.
A true repentance shows the evil ITSELF
more than the external suffering or the
shame.-Shakespeare
The true epic of our times is not arms and
the man. but tools and the man.-an in
fin.tely wider kind of epic.-Carlyle.
AS land is improved by sowing 1t with
various seeds, so Is the mind by exercising
1t with different studies.-Pliny.
War kills men, and men deplore the loss
but war also crushes bad principles and
tyrants, and SO saves societies.-Colton.
The wisest woman you talk with Is ig-
norant Of something that you know. but
an elegant woman never forgets her ele-
gance.-Holmes.
Nature appears to me to have ordained
this station here for us as place of So
journment, a transitory abode only. and
not as fixed settlement or permanent
observation-disclosures.
Pursue not a victory too far. He hath
conquered well that hath made his enemy
ny; thou mayest beat him to desperate
resistance, wnich may ruin thee.-George
Herbert.
Virtue Is more to man than either water
OF nTe. nave seen men die from treadinS
on water and fire, but have never seen
q man die from treading the course Of vir-
tue.-Confucius.
True worth is as inevitably discovered