Items of Interest.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 503, 10 January 1906, Page 7

Items of Interest.

WE view the .world with our own eyes, eaoh of us; and we make from within us the world we see.—Thaokeray.

I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they oarry their oomfort with them.—George Eliot.

While selfishness may be the law of nature, it is not, for all that, the law of humanity.—Perdipand Brunetiere.

Ghoose always the way that seems the beßt, however rough it may be. Custom will render it eaßy and agreeable.—Pythar goras.

Many a wound of friendship heals, but the wounder and the wounded are never the same to eaoh other afterwards.—James Lane Allen.

No artiole of faith can be truly and duly preaohad without neoessarily and simultaneously infusing a deep senud of the iudispensableness of a holy life —Coleridge.

Flowers seem intended foe the solace of ordinary humanity. Cjhildren love them; quiet, contented ordinary people love tbem as they grow: luxurious and disorderly people rejoice to gather them ; they are the cottager's treasure; and in the crowded town, mark, as with a little broken fragment of rainbow, the windows of the workers in whose hearts rests the oovenant of peaoe.—Ruskin.

The times are wonderful and will be still mora so; and one would not willingly lose by negligence, self-mismanagement, and want of patienoe, what power one has of working in them and having influenoa on them. But the power of self-management and turning one's oircumatanoea to the best aooount is the hardest power in the world to acquire ; half the wasted lives one sees are due to the want of it.—Matthew Arnold.

If you are in a strait—a very good indication as to choice—perhaps the best you oould get is a bcok you have a great ouriosity about. You are then in the readiest and best of all possible conditions to improve by that book. It is analogous to what tell us about the physioal health and appetite of the patient. You must learn to distinguish between false appetite and real. There is such a thing as a false appetite, whioh wilt lead a man into vagaries with regard to diet, will tempt him to eat spioy things which he should not eat at all, and would not but that it is loathsome, and for the moment a baseness of mind. A man ought to inquire and find out what he really and truly has an appetite for; what suits his constitution ; and that, dootors tell him, is the very thing he ought to have in general. And so with books.— Oarlyle.