Year: 1861

Ol1Vef WenQeu Holmes.


The following are pithy extracts from DR..
Holmes late work, entitled " Elsie Venner =
Remember that nature makes every man
love all women, and trusts the trivial matter
oil special choice to the commouest accident


An overworked woman is always sad
sight, sadder great deal than an overworked
man, because she is so much more fertile in
capacities of suffering than man.


1t is wonderful how men and women know
their peers. If two strange queens, sole survi-
vors of two shipwrecked vessels, were cast, half
naked, on a rock together, each would at once
address each other as " our royal sister,


No man or woman can appropriate beauty
without paying for it-in endowments, in for
tune, in position, in selfsurrender, or other
valuable stock and there are a great many
who are too poor, too ordinary, too humble,
too busy too proud, to pay any of these prices
for it. So the beautiful get many more lovers
than the beauties only, as there are more of
them, their lovers are spread thinner, and do
not make so much show


Keep your temper, if you can, for one angry
man is as good as another. Treat bad men
exactly as if they were insane.


A man always loves a woman, and a woman
man, unless some good reason exists to the
contrary.


Certificates are for the most part like os
trich eggs, the giver never knows what is
hatched out of them. But once in a thousand
times they act as curses are said to-come
home to roost.


A mean man never agrees to anything with
out deliberately turning it over, so that he may
see its dirty side, and, if he can, sweating the
coin he pays for it. If an arehangel should
offer to save his soul for sixpence, he would try
to find a sxpence with hole in it.


When you find a person little better than
his word, little more liberal than his promise,
little more than borne out in his statement by
his facts, a little larger in deed than in Speech
you recognize a kind of eloquence in that per-
sons utterance not laid down in Blair or
Campbell


There are no better maxims for ladies who
give tea parties than these:


Cream is thicker than water


Large heart never loved little creampot.


Men are tattooed with their special beliefs
like so many South Sea Islanders; but real
human heart, with divine love in it. beats with
the same glow under all earth's thousand tribes


1t makes men imperious to sit on a horse !;
no man governs his fellows so well as from this
living throne. And so from Marcus Aurelius
in Roman bronze, down to the man On horse
back . in General Cushing's prophetic speech
the saddle has always been the true seat of
empire.


| have great confidence in young men who
live in themselves, and are accustomed to rely
on their own resources from an early period
When a resolutc young fellow steps mp to the
great bully, the World, and boldly takes him
BY the beard, be is often surprised to find it
come off in his hand, and that it was only tied
on to scare off timid adventurers. | have seen
young men more than once, who came TO
great city without single friend, support
themselves and pay for their education, lay up
money, in a few years grow rich enough TO
travel, and establish themselves in life, and
without ever asking a dollar of any person
which they had not earned. But these are
exceptional cases. There are horse tanners
born so. we all know there are women tanners
who bewich the sex as the pied piper bedeyil-
ed the children of Hamelin; and there are
world tanners, who can make any community,
even Yankee one, get down and let him jump
on its back as easily as Rarey subdued Cruiser.


Wherever two natures have great deal IN
common, the conditions of first rate quarrel
are furnished ready made. Relations are very
apt to hate each other just because they are
too much alike 1t is so frightful to be in an
atmosphere of family idiosyncracies to see all
the hereditary uneomellness or nfrmity of
body, all the defects of speech, all the faiings
of temper intensified by concentration, so that
every fault of our own finds itself multiplied
by reflection like our images in a saloon lined
with mirrors Nature knows what she is
about"