WORDS OF THE WISE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 68, 20 March 1915, Page 20

WORDS OF THE WISE.

Our greatness is that we aspire.—Thomas l Kempis. Minds are not conquered by arms, bnt by love and generosity. —Spinoza. Passionate people always deny thelr anger, and cowards often boast their Ignorance of fear. —Napoleon. Behaviour is a mirror in which everyone shows his image—Goethe. It is an everlasting duty, the duty of being brave. Valour is still value. —Carlyle. Hope awakens courage. He who can Implant courage in the haman soul is its best physician.—Yon KuebeL A woman is the most inconsistent compound of obstinacy and self-sacrifice that I am acquainted with.—Bichter. Abundance is a Messing to the wise; The use of riches in discretion lies. Chivalry means far more than reverence of men for women. It means reverence of strength for weakness wheresoever found.— Gannett. Public life is a situation of power and energy; he trespasses against his duty who sleeps upon his watch as well as he that goes over to .the enemy.—Burke. —■ i When once you have conceived and determined your mission within your soul, let naught arrest your steps.—Mazzini. Those who are auite satisfied sit still ted do nothing; those who are not quite Tatisned are the sole benefactors of the world.—W. S. Landor. d holy night! from thee I learn to bear What man has borne before; Ibou layest thy finger on the lips of care, ' And they complain no more. —Lonsfellow, There is time enough for everything in the coarse of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year, if yon will do two things at • time.—Lord Chesterfield. The setting sun, and music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest Writ In remembrance more than things long past. Richard 11., ii. 1. Nothing is sweeter than love; nothing | stronger, nothing higher, nothing broader, nothing better either in heaven or earth, because love is of God, and rising above all created things can find its Test in Him •lone.—Thomas a Kempis. By the fireside still, the light is shining, The children's arms around the parents twining: Srom love so sweet. Oh! who would roam? Be it ever so homely, Home is Home! One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.—Hazlitt. Astronomy.—The science which concerns ■s most, which is most necessary for our general instruction, which offers for our Study the greatest charms, and -keeps in eeserve ,the highest enjoyments. —Flam■ation.