GRAINS OF GOLD

New Zealand Tablet, 27 August 1908, Page 3

GRAINS OF GOLD

THANKSGIVING. Thank God for the trees and the flowers and the blue, blue sky ! Thank God for some happy hours and a hope that can never die 1 Thank God though the way be long, for joy when the' Journey - ends ! Thank God for the gift of song ! And, oh, thank God for my friends ! — Aye Maria.

A Catholic paper in a home is like the lamp before the tabernacle — a constant reminder of God. — Catholic Columbian.

There are few things impossible in themselves : perseverance to bring them to a successful issue is wanting much more than the means. — La Rochefoucauld.

Every day is a little life, and our whole life is but a day repeated. Those, therefore, that dare lose a day are dangerously prodigal ; those that dare mis-spend a day are desperate. — Emerson.

If you would lift me, you must be on higher ground. If you would liberate me, you must be free. If you would correct my false view of facts, hold up to me the same facts in the true order of thought.— R. W. Emerson.

The reason why so few people are agreeable In conversation is that each is thinking more on what he is intending to say than on what others are saying, and that we never listen when we subject ourselves voluntarily.— La Rochefoucauld.

Every individual who breathes a word of scandal isan active stockholder in -a society for the spread of moral contagion. He' is instantly punished by Nature by having his mental eyes dimmed to sweetness and purity, and his mind ' deadened to the sunlight and glow of charity.— William G: Jordan.

Confidence always gives pleasure to the man in whom it is placed. It is a tribute which we pay to his merit; it is a treasure which we intrust to his honor % it is a pledge' \vnich gives him a right over us, and a kind of dependence to which we subject ourselves voluntarily.— La Rochefouncauld. *^ It is not possible to live to one's self in this workC Even ''the hermit has a sphere of influence; even the secluded miser casts a blight over a certain segment of the human circle. Such being the case, how much better and finer to shed sunshine as we go through a world that has rough places a.nd steep.