FLASHES OF THOUGHT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 29 May 1907, Page 4

FLASHES OF THOUGHT.

HARMLESS FOLLY. A fool is one imply immersed in illusions.—Lucas Clceve in ''The Rose tleranium." THE NEED OF THE LAW. Laws are made for those who break them.—S. Macnaughten in "The Expensive Miss On Cane." HOW THEY DIFFER. Woman . . . sees with a telescope, man with a magnifying glass.—l!. S. S. Spender in "Display." MANNERS THAT ARE XOT. Some people are so reserved in their maimers that it is difficult to tell if they have any.—Cassell's Saturday Journal. THE TEST. Women want to be on an equality with men; let them show their mettle by showing a preference for the. society, undiluted, of their own sex.—The Throne AN T UNNECESSARY EVIL. It is no use to plead that we are plain, blunt men. We cannot help being plain; but we can certainly help being blunt.—Rev. Allen.

WORTH ITS PRICE. The man who buys his experience cheaply makes a very bad bargain. It is not until you have paid pretty dearly for it that it becomes worth having.— The 'Varsity. (JAMES AND TUB BOY.

There is no surer way of teaching i boy to loaf than to compel him to play a game which he does not like and for which lie .is not suited.--Mr Kcble Howard in the Sketch.

WHICH IS FIRST? Tli« poets all along the ages have said Unit- spring shows herself first in some timid snowdrop in a quiet nook. I always see her first in a lint -shop window. —Mrs Humphry in Tnith.

MIRACLE WORKERS. The keystone of England, as well as |of France., is the middle class.' The forces which come from the people and from the lower middle class, together with determined ambition, accomplish ! marvels.—M. Pierre de Coulevan in (lie Fortnightly Review. IL'EALS IX HANGER. An ideal may become an idol, and idols are easily overthrown.—Mrs Fred RoyHolds in 'The House of Rest." THE ANGLE OF VISION; We ha ve all a tendency to be generous before we are just when we are.' as we think, looking down.—The Spectator. INDTSPENSIBLE WOMEN. Life would he terribly dull, without ambition, but it would be unbearable without women.—"A -Mere .Aran" in the Throne. 'iHr, GREATER CHARITY. In charity, as elsewdiere, is is not the action but, the spirit of the agent that permanently tells.—\i mtagu Crackanthorpe in the Fortnightly Review. IMAGINATION—THE MASTER. The clearest demonstration of sober. lazy, pacing history can never oust a pleasing fiction from the popular belief. —Archibald MacMachan in the, Atlantic Monthly. AN UNPOPULAR QUALITI'. Itepectability. a quality that no man defends, is now the mere cockshy at which every young person of culture throw? his fi'i«c—Mr Andre .v Lang in the Morning Post.