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Anglo-Maori Warder, Volume 1, Issue 8, 13 June 1848, Page 4

The tooth of a child is easier to draw than that of a man, because it has no fangs; so it is with his evil passions.— Hare's Sermons. The state of a mind oppressed with a sudden calamity, is like that of the fibulous inhabitants of the new created earth, who, when the night came upon them, supposed that day would never return.— Ra selas. Mammon is like fire; the usefullest of all servants, if the frightfullest of all masters.— Cwhjle. Ibrahim, prince of Albania, kisbeil the footstool o Tamerlane's imperial tiirone. His peace offerings of silks, horses, and jewels, were composed, according to the Tartar fashion, each r.rticle of nine pieces; but a critical spectator observed, that there were only eight slaves. " I myself am the ninth," replied Ibrahim, wiio was prepared for the remark j and his iiattery was rewarded by the smile of Timour.— Gibbon. Wines which, at first treading, ran gently, are pleasanter than those which are forced by the wine press, for these taste of the stone and the husk of the grape; so those doctrines are exceedingly wholesome and sweet which Row from the Scriptures gently pressed, and not wrested into controversies and common place. —Lord Bacon. T.tat man must have "a pumpkin for his head, and a pippin for his heart," who would wish the age of chivalry to have passed away. _ Tobso has taken the birth and bringing up of Clorimla from Thcagenes and Char idea, in the Ethioplcs of Helioduiu*. who according to Nicephorus was deposed from his bishopric by the provincial synud of Thessaly, for writing love tales ; like Home who wasexfellcd the ministry by the Glasgow Presbyters for having written the tragedy of Douglas. Amyot, on the contrary in 1555, was nominated to an Abbey by Henry 2nd, in France, for having translated it. No one scruples to speak in the popular laneu=gs of the htil of Calvary; yet there nj-peara no i-vidutici*, which is not purely legendary, for the a&SfiUou that Caiv.,ty wai ou a hill —Milman. In all ages it has been usual for men to compound with'heir cou3cienceß or breaches of the au.r?l code of by a double portion vt z<-i>l for it* abstract doctrines.— Walter Scott. I reihftnher a saying of King Charles II en Sir ?].~itii'-w Hales, (who wsb doubtless an uncorrupt and upr" lv man) that his servants were sure to be cast on ;: ti.al, w.iicli was heard before him : not that he ti.o u«lit the ju«'ge was possible to be bribed ; but that I s :n-egi-ity ruigiit be t*o scruplous.— Dry den* The most ingenious nay of becoming foolish is by a system ; and the surest way to prevent good is 10 set u,» something in the room of it.— Lord Shaftesbury's advice to Authors. Tue Vi>lue of candour in individuals shtuldbe measured by their sensibility to shame. Wl eu a woman throws off all restraint, and then desires uu to admire her catulour, 1 am astonished only at her assurance, The great physiologV, John Hunter, used to maintain that the African Ll.uk was the true original man, and all the others only different varieties deriving from him, and more or less debased or improved.