MAXIMS OF MEN OF MARK.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 3 June 1907, Page 4

MAXIMS OF MEN OF MARK.

FROM THEIR WRITINGS AMI) | SI'EECHKS. PLATO. I Fourth Century 8.C.). All grand tilings are dangerous. Hooks lire the immortal son; deifying their Bircs. All mighty and numerous labors belong to the young. A tyrant ... iti three times liirio' remote Iruui true pleasure. lie who is master of himself must ■..imehou bj likewise inferior to himself. Beauty is the clearest, the most certain of all things, and the most lovable. Injustice is the greatest of nil evils which the soul hath within it, and justice the greatest good. Love is said to be a tyrant . . . . and . . . Love the tyrant dwelling within, governs all in the soul. A niiiu'n character and contact will always be according to his education; let him apply ).im=clf afterwards if he will.

The nature of the woman and of the man for the geaidiansliip of temper is the same, only that one is weaker and the other stronger.

Vice can never at all know both ilseil and virtue. But. virtue, where the temper is instructed by time, shall attain t/> the knowledge of both itself and depravity. T)o not eompe' boys in their learning, but train them up, amusing themselves, that you may be better able to discern to what the genius of each naturally tends.

It is not only unlikely, but is perfectly necessary, that '.,ue who is naturally in love everything aliled and belonging to the objects of his affection.

JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN. (Twentieth Century). Courage finds its own reward. The time for small States has gone. The ties of sentiment are slender, but they are strong No privat friendship can long resist the effect of public contest. Let us believe iu the futuer, and the. future will answer our anticipations. The eloquence of reason is greater than the eloquence of passion as a. foKt in moulding human opinion. Eloquence means speaking out., speaking plainly, speaking simply, speaking tally and speakin forcibly. As long as human nature is what it is there must be times when the prac I lice of arms is the highest duty of citizenship. People talk about change as if it wt-e a disgrace It is only the dead who remain the same. If people live they must change There is no finality in politics, and every generation in turn must solve its own problems, and curry forward to a successful issue its own reform. National defence and all it means is not s.ilely the responsibility r ' i.ny '..•' vcrnment or State. It is a duty which rests on the shoulders of the whole people. Three classes of person are essentia! to the success of the modern university Students and teachers are the first two. l'he third class—at least as important as tie other two—is that known as the 'pious benefactor."