APHORISMS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 14, 17 January 1905, Page 3

APHORISMS.

If you help yourself, everyone will help you. Man is the noblest work of God—but nobody ever said so but man. Gossip is vifce enjoyed vicariously— the eweet, snbtle satisfaction without the risk. There is nothing so hygienic as friendship; Hell is a separation and Heaven is only going home to your friends. Troubles are not really troubles unless yon quit work and incubate them —otherwise they are only incidental dive ri-rioas. _ Vfifhout animation, man is naught — nothing is accomplished, nothing dune. A man loves himself and marries his ideal, and then blames his wife because she does not live up to all the virtues he can imagine. He has the alchemist's secret who changes' one sad note to song; be has the touch of Midas who makes all bright and gold someone's day. The Strong Man is one who busies himself with the useful tasks that others oahwot. or will not do, and allows the people to do easy things who can do nothing else. Be very careful how you go into the Best Society. I know a man who ventiued in, once, and sank over his ears. We got him out, but he was never any good aftea-wards. So there you get the formula of Education; happiness through useful activity —animation, kindness, good-cheer, patience, persistency, willingness to give and take seasoned with enough discontent to preyent smugness, which is the scum that grows over every stagnant pond. —Aphorisms from the "Philistine."