The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-07-24

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that you cannot sign, and never do any
thing that you cannot avow. Never
forget that others will count upon you,
and that you must never count upon
them. Value money at its real worth,
neither more nor less. 1t is a good ser
want but bad master.
Keep away from women until you
are twenty. and avoid them when You
are forty. Never attempt to produce
anything without a thorough under
standing Of that which you undertake,
and destroy as little as possible. Par
don everybody beforehand, to be on the
safe side. Do not despise men; do not
hate them, and do not laugh at them
beyond measure. Pity them.
"Think of death every morning when
you see the light and every evening on
the approach of darkness. When your
sufferings are great look your grief IN
the face; it will console you itself and
teach you something. Try to be simple,
to become useful, to remain free and
before denying God wait until some
body proves to you that He does not ex-
list
For man and for a woman there is
a succession of duties to be fulfilled
which enables them to look always
ahead and to become accustomed to the
absence of the objects of their most
dear affections. The world would fin
ish too quickly if the first child was not
able to survive the death of the first
mother
"Misfortunes and trials attack noble
souls without hurting them. They are
like the rocks of granite that the sea
covers in times of tempest with Its flu
rious waves, fancying that 1t is drown
| Ing them, while it is merely washing
them, so that they reappear again in
| the sunlight more polished than ever.
Adversely embellishes those that 1t can
not cast down. BY the law Of nature a.
man should have many children. He
should raise them we'll, so that they
may be useful; and he should love them
so that they may be happy. To get
married when a man is young is
healthy; to choose, in no matter what
class, a good, honest girl; to love her
with all his heart and soul, and to make
her reliable companion and a prolific
mother; to work to raise his children,
and to leave them when dying the ex-
ample of his life-that is the true mean
| ing and object of life; the rest is only
error crims or folly.
sin truth, the average man is only
above ambient humanity on one single
plane, virtue; and, as there can be no
virtue without humility, those alone
have the right to consider themselves
the superiors of others to whom the
knowledge that they are superior is de-
MED. Talent, and especially its higher
form called genius, is involuntary. 1t
is not the result of the efforts of man;
1t is, like beauty, the gift of God. That
| is why it is of secondary order; and pos
terity will only remember 1t for its viz
tue, its sincerity and it's communion in
universal progress. Glory for glory's
sake is a shameful speculation.
'"The men who rejoice In their celeb
rity are simpletons; the men who are
proud of their genius are fools.
"There Is one thing that is especially
beautiful in great and pure affections,
and that is that, after the pleasure
which they afford has passed away,
there remains the happiness of their re-
collection.
VERY often an unexpected grief or an
| unmerited misfortune gives to a, man
an energy and a perseverance which he
could never find in happiness. And af-
| ter such trials a man often becomes SUI
perior who would have remained sim
pie and vulgar if he had always been
| happy. He who is without energy
when young will never have it. Grit is
not winter fruit; it never grows in the
snow.
One may expect everything from a
man of energy to whom misfortune has
given courage and ambition.
ALEXANDER DUMAS fils.'