IN PASSING.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3690, 13 September 1927, Page 1

IN PASSING.

Man is a praying animal. —Mr. Oscar Sneyd. Gravestones are no earthly good, —Judge Herbert Smith.

Kindliness is the great secret of life. —Mr. Justice MeCardie.

It is a mischievous slogan to say that majorities must rule. —Rev. J. J. Johnson.

So long as we try to keep a nieum and tuum account with our Maker, the world will seem to us an unsatisfactory place. —Dean Inge. Formerly people regarded democratic rule as the ideal form of government, but I do not think any are so foolish as to believe that now. — Bishop of Lincoln. I believe my successor at the next Edinburgh meeting thirty years hence will speak of tuberculosis in this country as largely a memory of the past.—Sir Robert Philip. There is a sacred duty toward all young immature minds; and, even to secure their welfare, I must not pervert, exaggerate or “economise” the truth.—Dr. J. L. Morison.

The growing popularity of opera in England is due not to an increase of artistic susceptibility, but to a growing conviction on the part of Englishmen that it is not art—Mr. Osbert Sitwell.