A WOMAN'S MAXIMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 28 September 1907, Page 4

A WOMAN'S MAXIMS.

Joy is the best of wine. What we have been makes us what we are. What makes life dreary is the want Of motive. Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds. ilarriagc must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest. There's nothing but what's bearable, so long as a man can work. Mens muscles move better when their souls are making merry music. Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barriers of system. The first condition of goodness is something to love, the second something to reverence. The blessed work of helping the world forward does not wait to be done by I perfect men.

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

The last thing in which the cultivated man can have community with the vulgar is their jocularity. A chief aspect of man's moral development is the slow subduing of fear by the gradual growth of intelligence. Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker. A certain keeu narrowness of nature will secure 'a man from many absurd beliefs, which the larger soul, vibrating to more manifold influences, would have a long struggle to part with. We are always doing each other injustice, and thinking better or worse of each other than we deserve, because we only hear and see -separate words and aciions. We don't see each other's whole nature.