MAXIMS AND MORALISINGS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 213, 29 August 1908, Page 4

MAXIMS AND MORALISINGS.

Injure no man, not even the wickedPlato. The good we do shall make our future heaven.—Cresswcll. Activity is the only road to knowledge.—t;. Bernard Shaw. The true university of these days is a collection of books.—Carlyle. Strive to realise your ideal, but accept defeat philosophically.—Braby. Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.—Goethe. Intelligence was given to man that he might hide his foolishness.—Diane. The game has yet to be invented in which both players can win,—Whyte Melville. There are enough serious things in life without considering yourself one of them.—Mizner. •In ordinary life, kindness and simplictiy arc valued far more than brilliance. —A. C. Benson. It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.—Huxley. Death happens to cv'rybody Injye this life, including other people's funerals.—Mr. Dooley, A man speaking of himself, in general, is a " babbling brook"; of his wrongs, a "shining river."—Charles Reade. The man with a bee iu his bonnet is a more useful citizen than the one with a wasp in his tongue.—ll. B. Sheridan. The least act ot justice and kindness adds something to the forward movement of human progress.—Le Bourgeois. Be consistent to your purpose, and desirous only of the praises which belong tu patience and discretion.—Ruskin. Health, happiness, and good repute are given to the man who lives up-' rightly and keeps his garments clean i and liis hands busy.—Charles Wagner, f