Materials for Chaught.

Clutha Leader, Volume III, Issue 147, 4 May 1877, Page 7

Materials for Chaught.

They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. To choose time ih to save time, and an unseasonable motion is but beatingthe air. I love sueh 7 mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning-. There is a small chance of truth at the goal, where there is not a child-like humility at the starting-post. Some people seem born with a head in which the thin partition that divides great wit from folly is wanting*. Thy life is no idle dream, but a solemn reality. It is thy own ;it is all thou hast to front eternity with. The Sabbath, as a political institution, is of inestimable value, independently of its claims to divine authority. One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any oi the company can reasonably wish we had rather left unsaid. Rage is essentially vulgar, and never vulgarer than when it proceeds from mortified pride, disappointed ambition, or thwarted wilfulness. Remembrance is the only Paradise out of which we cannot be driven away. Indeed our first parents were not deprived of it. — Richter. It is the mind that makes ut, rich and happy in what condition soever we are j and money signifies no more to it than it does to the g-ods. — Seneca. A true preacher, a man endowed with the real faculty of religious exposition or exhortation, wherever he finds himself, will find an interested audience. She who does not make her family : comfortable will herself never be happy at home ; ahd she wbo is not happy at home will never be happy anywhere. — j Addison. As laughter enables mirth and surprise to breathe freely, so tears enable sorrow to vent itself patiently. Tear.* hinder sorrow from becoming despair, and laughter is one of the privileges of reason confined to the human species. ils gardening has been the inclination of kings and the choice of philosophers, so it has been the common favourite of the public and private man ; a pleasure of the greatest, and the care of the meanest } and, indeed, an employment and a possession for which no man is too high or too low. Of the uncertainty of success we have examples every day before us. Scarcely can a man turn his eyes upon the world without observing the sudden rotation of affairs — the ruin of the affluent, the downfall of the high ; and it may reasonably be hoped that no man to whom %he opportunities of such observation occur can forbear applying them to his own condition, and reflecting- that what he now contemplates in another he may in a few days experience himself. — Dr Johnson.