Items of Interest.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 995, 8 September 1915, Page 7

Items of Interest.

The truest joy we have in life is male ing others glad.

The blue of heaven is larger than the cloud.—E. B. Browning.

A man or a woman who .sacrifice themselves for others may have a light for it, but they cannot be unhappy. Jowett.

Life is short. Let us not throw any of it away in useless resentment. It is best not to be angry. It is next best to be quickly reconciled.—Samuel Johnson.

Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminately praises, but coarsely hurrahs. The 'truest acts of heroism never reach her ear, are never published by her trumpet.—Thoreau.

Men of true wisdom and goodness aro contented to take persons and things as they are, without complaining of their imperfections or attempting to amend them.—Henry Fielding.

Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.—Steele.

Reverence for ago is a fair test of the vigour of youth ; and, conversely, insolence towards the old and the past, whether in individuals or in nations, is a sign rather of weakness than of strength.—C. Kingsley.

"Half tho world," said Henrj Drummond, "is on the wrong scent in the pursuit of happiness. They think it consists in having and getting, and in being served by others. It consists in giving and in serving others."

"Yesterday is clear to me; to-morrow dear to me; but before me and under my. hand is to-day's task," is a motto worth remembering. "Live in to-day," embraces much. Many of us waste a great deal of time in dwelling on the past and also in building impossible castles for the future, when we could spend that time so profitably now. We cannot help past experiences; they can now servo only to improve our future. Therefore, why live in the past when we can accomplish much that is just waiting to be done? If we try to live up to the resolve of "living in to-day'' and making the most of the present, each day will be "worth while."