MAXIMS AND MORALISINGS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 234, 11 February 1911, Page 9

MAXIMS AND MORALISINGS

The lad who blurts out a bad excuse can be left in charge of the till. It's the one who invents a good one that wants watching.—Vincent Laurens. Philosophers give love many names, but the result is always the same.— Walter Pulitzer. Let your own discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action.—Shakespeare. Whenever you hear a man dissuading you from attempting to do well, on the ground that perfection is "Utopian," beware of that man.—Ruskin. My duty is to dare all things for a righteous end. —Byron. Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less.—Dr. Johnson. Trust men, and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.—Emerson. Whenever is spoken a noble thought, our hearts, in glad surprise, to higher levels rise.—Longfellow. Any person under the age of thirty who, having any knowledge of the existing social order, is not a revolutionist, is an inferior.—G. Bernard Shaw. A man with a new idea is a crank—until the idea succeeds.—Mark Twain.

It is enough to make a woman turn pale when she is betrayed—into telling her age!— Walter Pulitzer. While man's dull spirit toils in smoke and fire, woman's swift instinct threads the electric wire.—o. W. Holmes. Consummate happiness does not exist in this world—except in the paradise of fools.—D. McClymont. Who shuts his hand, hath lost his gold; who opens it, hath it twice told.—George Herbert.

Always laugh when you can; it is a cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.—Byron. Obsequiousness makes friends; candor breeds dislike.—Confucius. None can be called deformed but the unkind.—-Shakespeare.-Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.—W. E. Ohanning. Men live in part by their own efforts; but in the greater part by the help of others.—Ruskin.

Better leave undone than do by halves. —Tennyson. The best help is not to bear the troubles of others, but to inspire them with courage and energy to bear them. —Lubbock.