WORDS OF WISDOM.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 6, Issue 335, 29 February 1884, Page 6

WORDS OF WISDOM.

Weigh not so much what men assert, as what they prove ; remembering that truth is simple and nacked, and needs not invention to apparel her comeliness. — [Sir P. Sidney. By debiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite now what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil.— [George Eliot. It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man I will oblige a great many that are not so.— [Seneca, He that hath a scrupulous conscience is like a horse that is not well weighed ; he starts at every bird that flies out of the hedge. — [Seldom. Alas 1 if the principles of contentment are not within us, the hight of station aud worldly grandeur will boon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness. — j Sterne. Oreat talents for conversation should be attended with great politeness. He who eclipses others, owes them great civilties ; and whatever a mistaken vanity may tell us, it is better to please in conversation th*n to shine in t. — [Sir "W . Temple. Wounds and hardships provoke our courage, and when our fortunes are at the i lowest, our wits and minds arc commonly at the best. — [Charron" Next to clothes being fine, they should be well made tnd worn easily, for a man is only the less genteel for a fine coat, if in wearing it he shows a regard tor it, and is not as easy in it as if it were a plain one. — [Chesterfield. Supineness and effeminacy have ruined more constutions thate wer ever destroyed by excessive labors. Moderate exercise and toil, so far from prejudicing, strengthens and consolidates the body. — j_Dr. Rush. If our credit be so well built, so firm that it is not easy to be shaken by calumny or insinuation, envy then commends us and extols us beyond reason, to those upon whom we depend, till they grow jeatous >i nd so blow us up when they cannot throw us down. — [Clarendon. A wise and good man will turn examples of all sorts of his own advantage. The good he will make his patterns and try to equal or excel them, the bad he will by all means avoid. — [Thomas a-Kempis. The wheel of fortune turns incessantly round, and who can say within himself I shall to-day be uppermost. — [Confucius. Experience keeps a dear school ! but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that ; for it is true we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct However, they that will not be counselled cannot be helped, andif you will not hear reason she will surely rap your knuckles. — [Frankin. A goat ought to be a first-class materii-l for oleomargarine. There is no better butter than the goat. Courting a girl is paying her addresses. Marriage is paving for nor dresses and all the other fixing;!. Candid sportsmen — -3oy you've been at this whiskey i" Boy who has brought the luncheon basket — "Na I the cooark wadna come oot !" A female ourang-outang in Philadelphia has learned to love a little dog, and retuses to be seperated from it. borne fashionable ladies are the same way. We read of a thild, only 3 years old, who can speak the Chinese language diustinctly. There are many persons in this country, 60 years old, who don't understand a word of that language. The child, by the way, has Chinese parents and live in China. "i'redaie did you go to school to-day?" "Yes'm." "Did you learn anything new?" "Yes'rn." "What was it, my boy?" "I got on to a sure way of gettug' out for an hour by snuffing red ink up my ncse. " Ethel— '-Look— look, Dorothy 1 There's Richard Marvel !" Dorothy country cousin) —"Richard Marvel? Who's he !" Ethel— 'What, never heard of Richard Marvel? Why, he's the actor, you know, at the Parthenon I" Dorothy — "Oh 1 an actor, is he 1 He's something like Mr Osbaldistone Smith." Ethel— "Who's Mr Osbaldistone JSmith?" Dorothy — "What 1 never heard of Mr Osbaldistone Smith ? Why, he's the greatest breeder of shorthorns in all Cumberland !"