SOME SAYINSG.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 210, 12 February 1915, Page 8

SOME SAYINSG.

Pity tlift man wlio makes mistakes inn] takes no profit from them. I'jiivv is blind, and can only disparage tlie virtues of others. In Hie lexicon of business there's 110 ■such word as "Luck." If the Germans really have more culture than the rest of us, they probably It is a pitv that some civil servants cannot be civil men. An optimist is oivy who not only hopes for the best, but actually expects Pleasures are like fouls; tlie simplest! are those of which one never tires. The sign of goodness in the young is to love the old, and in the old to iove the young. If every man were as valuable as he thinks in- is, there wouldn't, be money enough in the world to pay wages.

From the age of forty onwards, it | .scorns as if years are only composed of six months.—Adrelien Seholl. -Mothers associate themselves more readily with their children's dreams than with their husband's labors. Small minds an; too much hurt by; small things; great ones tak i verything into account, and are not hurt. One must not judge men bv the tilings of which they are ignorant, but by the tilings they know and by their manner of knowing them. You must measure the strength of a man by the power of the feelings which ho subdues, not by the powef of those which, subdue him. —F. W. Robertson. We must look for the true face -of our religion in the faces of those who have best represented, it. —A. P. Stanley. The true strength of every human soul is to be dependent on as many nobler as it can discern, and to be depended, upon by as many inferior as it can reach.—Ruskin.

All that is essential in our idea of God we get, not from the understanding, but from the heart, and all that is essential in it is secured to us by the heart's pereptual need.—F. TI. Hedge. As love is the life of faith, so with i*ic increase of lovCj faith increases. Even from man toward man faith and love grow together. The more we love the more we understand and trust each other. —D. Pusey. If thou hast friends, give them thy best endeavor; Thy warmest impulse, and thy purest thought, Keeping in mind, in word ajjd action ever, The time is short. —II, Butterwortli.