WORDS OF THE WISE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 128, 30 May 1914, Page 15

WORDS OF THE WISE.

I love women eas women love babivs--all the better i'-t their weakness. —Jorrold. Taicc .what. is. trust what may be, That's Life's true lesson. —R. Browning. When you have nothing to say. say nothing.- Cotton. AVbat. is the use of health or of life, if not to do some work therein? - -—CaTlyle. There is but L-t tie in a woman's advice; vet. he that- won't- take it is not overwi.se. —C-ervun t rs. AVomen are w\sp off-hand and fools on reflection. —Italian Saying. A woman without a. l-.uig'a in her is (he greatest bope in exisvlenco.— • - Tluickeray. Tf ever ihp times come when ewomen -hall >-ome together simply and purely for the benefit of mankind it will be a power such as the world ha., never dreamed.—Matthew Arnold. Verily, old servants are the vouchers of yvort.hy housekeeping. •Wnshitrgtou Irving. I krrow not a more serioms- thing than the responsibility incurred by human affec.tion.- -M-a.rti.ieau. <aH for the grandest of all earthly spectacles what is that? It is tibe sun going to his rest. —De Quiineey, ° The woof of life is dark. But it. is shot with a warp of gold. - Robertson. Friendship is the greatest bond in the world.- sleremy Taylor. To -know .one person wii'O is poeSTteivoly to be tms-tcd w-.li do more for a man's moral nature yrw, f»>r his spiritual nature—.than all tine sermeonis he lisis ever heard or ever can hear.—Clcorge MacDorrjad. A man cannot •possess anybhang that is 'better than n good wife, or anything that is wotsv than a bad one. —Simonideß. Are not afl true men that live, or that ever lived, soldiiers of -;.he sarnie army, c pnlisteel undpr Heaven's captaincy, to do battle a-jraingt the same enemy- the empire -of I fcirkrr-ss and Wrong? ■Wines bo-ujd we mis-know- one another, tight iiot against .tiie pnpmy. hut. against oureselvrs. from mere dJ iTe reenco of uniforme?— .larlyle. "The twig is so pasily bended. I have b.xnitehpd thp rule and thp rod. I 'havp taught them the goodne_s of knowledege. They have •la.ug.-t mc the g*>odne.=s of ftotl." — Charles Dickens. | eOhildmn are the anchor that holds x mother to life. -Sophocles. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavour t-o be what you deesiirc to -appear.—Socrates. We require hig-her tasks because we do not recosfirisc the height of those we have. Trying to be kind and seierns an affair too simple and too inconsequential for gentlemen «,f our heroic mould. —Stevenson. I confess that I can- almost nothing aibout what a man lietievetj in comparison wi-t.h how he believes. If his belief ihe correct, it is -much the better for himself; bir: its intensity, its efficacy. is the g-ound on which I !.,'..- and trust him. —Mrs. Cariylc Difficulties imagined vie apl to arisr. — Sptirgcein. A man will not lie. although it be for hie profit.—Cicero.