SAYETH THE SAGE.

Shannon News, 3 January 1923, Page 3

SAYETH THE SAGE.

"There ure persons who think it a line characteristic of manhood to suppress all their emotions. They remain an imperturbable aspect of gravity when others rock with hearty laugh! or.. I often suspect that the reason why they appear to exercise is that they have no emotions to suppress." "A gentleman is never rude; he may be justly angry, but he will never be offensive in his speech. " "To love and be loved in the giuat manner is the wonder of life —the slow door of Paradise will swing wide upon its hinges, and you will stand upon the blazing threshold and listen to tlic Magnificat of angels and saints within. Such love is a kind o 7 esctacy mingled with anguish; and comes between a man and all else in his life. But romember that in married life, these early glorious pangs of passion necessarily and inevitably subside into a quiet, friendly fireside affection, wherein the vital quality for peace and happiness is congenial companionship based and nurtured upon community of interests, similarity of taste, equality of temperament, refinement of upbringing, and equality in the previous station of life.” "Letters to My Grandson." —Stephen Coleridge.