GRAINS OF GOLD.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Issue 46, 17 August 1878, Page 4

GRAINS OF GOLD.

Physic, for the most part, if nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance. —Addison. That a state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessaries not wanting.—Plutarch. Imitate time ; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it weal's away, it detaches, it does not wrench.—Joubert. Reputation is a most idle and most false imposition, oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.—Shakspeare. The seat of knowledge is in the head ; of wisdom, in the heart. We are Buro to judge wrong if we do not feel right.— Haslitt. There never did and never will exist anything permanently noble ami excellent in character which was stranger to the exercise of resolute self denial.—Walter Scott. Before thou reprehend another take heed thou art not culpable in what thou goest about to reprehend, lie that cleanses n blot with blotted fingers makes a great blur.—Quarles. The young girl who begins to experience the necessity of loving, 6eeks to hide it; but tho desiro of pleasing betrays the secret of her heart, and sometimes roveals her hopes.—Beauchere. It is for the most part in our skill in manners, and in observance of time and place and of decency in general, that what is called taste by way of distinction consists ; and which in reality is no other than a moro refined judgment.— Burke. We are ruined, not by what wo really want, but by what we think wo do; therefore, never go abroad in search of your wants—if they be real wants they will come homo in search of you, for ho that buys what he does not want will soon want what he cannot buy.—Colton. The works of a person that builds bogin immediately to decay, while those of nim that plant begin directly to improve. In this, planting promises a more lasting pleasure than building, which were it to remain iu equal perfection, would at leabt begin to moulder and want ropairs in imagination ; now trees have a circumstance that suits our suits our taste, and that is annual variety.—Thenstonc.