Wit and Wisdom.

Auckland Star, Volume XIII, Issue 3704, 24 June 1882, Page 2 (Supplement)

Wit and Wisdom.

Love has the instinct of immortality; A lying tongue is bad enough, but false tenth are worse. Poverty is in want of inucb, but avarice oi everything. We »re no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. Life without love can be borne, but life without honour, never. Adversity links men together; prosperity is apt to scatter them. The winner is he who gives himself to his w>rk body and soul. You will seldom find an attorney at law. That business don't suit. A man is known by his works, If yoir would keep shady, don't work. Sensitive people wish to be loved; vaia. people wish only to he preferred. It is easy to look down upon others; to look down on ourselves is tho difficulty. If you want little, spend little, and if yoir only want little, you will have much. "Boys will be boys." Just so : what a pity it is though, men won't always be men ! Out in the world men show us two sidesto their character—by their fireside only one. We polish marble, not clay. If one would' be a polished gentleman he must have solidity. No evil propensity of the human mind is so powerful that it may not he subdued by discipline. To enjoy the pleasures of wealth thoir sbouldst first experience the fatigue of. labour. Love is a queer thing, and so is happiness. To enjoy either completely it has tobe shared. That woman who neglects her husband's shirt front is no longer, the wife of hisbosom. We gain much in avoiding the failings of'others as we do in imitating that in which they excel. If a boy gets on the wrong "track" it Bhowstbat liis father's " switch " hasnot had' a fair chance. ' Fix upon that course of life which is the mo<-t excellent, and habit will render it the most delightful. If a man reaUy wants to know of howlittle importance he islet him go with his wife to the dressmaker's. We have heard a great many reasons given for second marriages, but none soirrefutable as this : "It is a counter irritation." There is no doubt in the world thatevery* body ought to reform, and as f«r ourselves —well, we aro very busy in telling others what they ought to do. but we will attend to that matter by and by.