Year: 1877

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true and practical philosophy.


Some people are very correct you


can never discover any fault in them,
but they never amount to much.


True friendship is plant Of slow
growth, and must stand the shocks Of
adversely before it is entitled to thas
appellation


These six--the peevish, the niggard
the dissatisfied, the passionate, the sua.
pieious, and those who live upon others
means are forever unhappy


He who cannot feel friendship IS
alike incapable of love. Let a woman
beware Of the man who owns that he
loves no one but herself


Only when the voice Of duty Is 81
lent, or when it has already spoken,
may we allowably think Of the conse-
quences of a particular action.


A passionate and revengeful temper
renders a man unfit for advice, de-
prives him of his reason, and robs him
Of all that is great and noble in his
nature.


The true motive Of our actions, like
the reed pipes of an organ, are usually
concealed but the gilded and hollow
pretext is pOmpously placed in front
for show.


Poverty IS often despair A poor
fellow went to hang himself. bat, find
ing pot Of gold, went merrily home.
But he who had hidden the pot went
and hung himself


We ought not to determine hastily
on any question newly proposed to US.
but to consider of it maturely; apd IN
every such case, to doubt is not With
out Its use.


What an exquisitely delicate precept
is that Of the Hindoo law which says:
Strike not, even with a blossom, ;
wife though she be guilty Of a hundred
faults"


Shakespeare says we are creatures
that look before and after. The more
surprising that we do not look around
a little and see what is passing under
our very eyes.


How violently do blow the sails Of
popular judgmentsl How few there
be that can discern between truth and
truth likeness, between shows and sub
stancesl


Women charm, as general thing
in proportion as they are good. A plain
face with heart behind it IS worth 8
world of beauty. Men who have tried
both uniformly agree to this.


The domestic man who loves no
music SO well as his kitchen clock, and
the airs which the logs sing to him as
they burn on the hearth, has solaces
which others never dream Of.


There are some races more cultured
and advanced, and ennobled by educa-
ton than Others, but there are no races
nobler than Others. All are equally
destined for freedom.


Vanity is a conounded donkey
very apt to put his head between bis
legs, and chuck US over; but pride is
a fine horse, that will carry us over
ground, and enable us to distance our
fellow travellers


@To describe any scene well, " said
Germae critic, 'the poet must make
the bosom Of a man his camera OBJ
scura, and look at it through this;
then he viii see it POLITICALLY"


Civility Is to a man what beauty is
to a woman. It creates an instantan-
eous impression in his behalf. while
the opposite quality excites as quick
against him.


Too much idleness, I have observed.
fills up a mans time much more COM
pletely, and leaves him less his own
master, than any sort of employment



Here is a little conundrum for
strikers: If. as they claim, they can
not live on the reduced wages offered
by employers. how is it that they live
without any wages at all ?


Have courage enough to review your
own conduct, to condemn it where you
detect faults, to amend it to the best
If your ability, to make good resolves
for the future guidance. and to keep
hem.


A man has a right to a large install
nent of the property he has raised
around himself. If man should give
III his money to the heather, in year
II two he would be a heathen himself.


The man who lives right, and Is
light, has more power in silence than
mother has BY his Words. Character
$ like the bells which, when touched
even, resounded with sweet
music.


A poet ought not to pick natures
,Ocket. Let him borrow, and SO Dor.
ow as to repay by the very act Of