PASSING THOUGHTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 88, 15 April 1899, Page 3 (Supplement)

PASSING THOUGHTS.

fVVho Is It will not dare himself to trust? ("Who is it has not strength to stand alone? [Who i 3 it thwarts and bilks the inward

Must? He and his works, like sand, from earth .blown.—James- Russell Lowell.

All religions are good which make men good, and the way that a person ought to prove that his method of worshipping God is best is for himself to be better than all other men.—Shelley.

The tale of divine pity was never yet believed from lips that were not felt to be moved by human plty.-George Eliot.

I wish it were never one's duty to quarrel with. anybody, I do so hate it. But not to do it sometimes is to smile in the devil's face, and that no one ought to do.—George Mac Donald.

I once asked a district nurse, says a writer in the 'Cornhlll Magazine/ how the various sick cases had been going on during my ansence rrora the parish. At ones the look which I knew so well crossed her face, but her natural professional pride strove ior tne mastery with the flue unctuousness which she considered necessary for the occasion- At last sne evolved the following strange mixture, •Middling well, sir; some of 'em s gone straight to glory, but I am glad to say Others are nicely on the mend.'