CHOICE EXTRACTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 4058, 21 July 1883, Page 4 (Supplement)

CHOICE EXTRACTS.

Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.

He who lives to no purpose lives to a bad

purpose,

Small cheer and great wolcome make a merry feast. •"»«.« a

The world is a comedy to these that think, a tragedy to those who feel?

• Nothing is more simple than greatness • indeed, to bu eimple is to be great. '

. Vl^v w°r'hily should be measured by a nobler line-by deeds, not years.

Dost thou love life, then no not squander time, for that is the stuff lif ß is made of.

abatam from all things that tend to our destruction ; intemperance the contrary

If you have built castles in the air, yonr work need not be 10-t. That is where they them PUt fouadati°l"' under

. False friends are like our shadow, Seen, ing close to us while we walk in the sun&he b 8 L 1r iußUßtheinß,aatwecr-

Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten Purchase. **' makeß™e««° happy

Character is not cut in marble-it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseassd as our bodies do

alt ia stated that an enthusiast in botany or ornithology who is not scared by solitude would finds residence upon Luudy Island to furnuh him with opportunities of amdy for years. *

♦r, t c .uoi a ,foreat i 9 moro moist than that of the fields, ihe difference being greatest in summer. Evergreen trees have more action in tbis respect than such as are deciduous.

Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottct furnace, and ihe brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

it. w• . hab'tual thought that frames lbelf into our life. It aflects us even more th.n our intimate social relations do. Our confidential friends have not so much to do m shaping our lives as the thoughts have which we harbour.