Chispas from Charles Reade.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 67, 13 September 1884, Page 5

Chispas from Charles Reade.

"Life is an intermittent fever."— Cloister and Hearth. " Onr foibles are our manias."— Griffith Gaunt. " Beauty is power ; a smile is its sword." —White Lies. "Good things have to be engraved on the memory ; bad ones stick thero of themselves." — Ibid. "Beware of jealousy — cursed jealousy ! It is the sultan of all the passions, and the Tartar chief of all the crimes. Other passions affect the character ; thischanges,and,if good always reverses it ! Mind that, reverses ; turns honest men to snakes and doves to vultures. Horrible, unnatural mixture of love with hate. You poison the whole mental constitution ; you bandage the judgment ; you crush the sense of right and wrong ; you steel the bowels of compassion ; you madden the brain ; you corrupt the heart ; you damn the soul."— lt is Never Too Late to Mend. "The sacred principle of justice was as strong in Mrs Woffington as in the rest of her sex ; she had not one grain of it."— Peg Woffington , ' ' Happy the man who has two chain cables— merit and women." — Cloister and Hearth. " Memory sometimes acts like an old flint 1 gun ; it hangs fire, yet ends by going off." —Put Yourself in His Place. "All men of tint day are dust ; they are the gold-dust who died with honour."— Christie Johnstone. " Off the stage James Quin was a character ; his eccentricities were three — a humorist, a glutton, and an honest mantraits that often caused astonishment and ridicule, especially the last."— Peg Woffington. " The landlord poured them (the robberband in the Black Forest Inn) out neat brandy, blood's forerunner in every age." — Cloister and Hearth. "What is popularity? Ask Aristides and Lamartine ; the breath of a mob smells of its source, and is gone before the sun can set on it."— Christie Johnstone. "We are going to weigh goose feathers — to criticise criticism."— Peg Woffington. " Where there's a heart there's a Rubicon."—Cloister and Hearth. "Happy the man whose wife taketh her fling before wedlock, and who trippeth up the altar steps instead of down 'em."— Cloister and Hearth. " Ah ! it is hard to resist the voice, and look, and clinging of a man's own flesh and blood. Children are so strong upon their knees; their dear faces, bright copies of our own, are just the height of our hearts then."— Foul Play. "Growth is the nature of habit, not of one sort or another, but of all, even of an unnatural habit. Gin grows on a man, tobacco grows on a man, tobacco grows on a man, blood grows on a man." — It is Never Too Late to Mend. "She: 'I feel all a woman's weakness.' He : ' Then you are invincible.' " — Cloister and Hearth. " The Scotch are icebergs, with volcanoes underneath ; thaw the Scotch ice, which in very cold, and you shall get to the Scotch fire, warmer than any sun of Italy or Spain."— Christie Johnstone. "It was an age in which artists sought out and loved one another. Should this last statement stagger a painter or writer of our day, let me remind him that even Christians loved one another at first starting, "—Cloister and Hearth.