Best Thoughts of Best Men.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 4278, 9 February 1884, Page 3 (Supplement)

Best Thoughts of Best Men.

Out of one hunched raen you run agaiast| you will find ninety-five "worrying themselves into low spirits and ir.'l:^\r:'oii about* troubles that will never come. Preserve your conscience always soft and sensitive. If but one sin force its way into that tender part of the soul and dwell easy there, the road is paved for a thousand iniquities.— Watts. A Good Hint.—lf in instructing a child you are vexed with it for want o; adroitness^ try, if you have never tried before, to write with your left hand, and remember that a child is all left hand. Idleness and Poverty.—To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches ; ai d therefore every man endeavours with t! f utmost care to hide his poverty from othe: , and his idleness from himself. Pet Sorrows.—Some people love to nurae a pet sorrow—it is so interesting 1o mope about the house and imagine yourj self a victim. A touch of real calamity is the only cure for that whimsical >t<inpluint. Health is the bed-plate, on which the whole mental machinery must rest and work. If this be cracked or displaced, all the mechanism that stands on it will to jarred and disturbed, and made ineffective.—Richard Storrs. Not long ago an old pioneer who had lived! in Texas in the days of the early colonists was boasting of the good old times. " Why, sir, I was once offered a league of land for a pair of old boots !" "Didn't you take it?" said the party addressed. "No, sir; I didn't." " Poor land, I reckon." "Why, bless your heart, sir, it was the best piece of land outdoors—grass five feet high, a clear stream of water running through it, and an undeveloped silver mine in the corner I" " An' why in thunder didn't you: make the trade ?" " Because," said the alii man, in a regretful tone of veice—"because I —l didn't have the boots." . ■' . We all want our children to bo happy. Now, the happiest children art; those who have happy mothers. The young- life which grows up in the shadow of ,: discontented, repining, and gloomy mother, i- like a plant unwatered by kindly dews. It is apt to bo dwarfed and stunted. So, even when things are crooked and temptations to uagentleness and unhappiness come, let the mother, for her sons f and daughters* sake, try to be happy.— Margaret E. Sanyster. Men who see into their neighbours aro very apt to be contemptuous ; but men who_ see through them find something lying behind every human soul which it is not for them to sit in judgment on or attempt to sn^er out of the order of God's manifold universe.— Holmes.