WORDS OF THE WISE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 49, 26 February 1916, Page 21

WORDS OF THE WISE.

■ a Ponowlng the line of least resistance always leads down hill. 1 Every effort made turns Into strength.— liticy Smith. ' A man's good breeding Is bis best security against other people's ill manners. The dangers the mind fears most rarely appear to view.—W. Stewart Eoyston. ' Tour capacity for happiness Is precisely proportionate to your capacity for belief. ' Among the highest saints in - Heaven will ■ be faces deepest scarred by the battle.— W. H. Mallock. A noble nature can alone attract the uoble and alone knows how to retain them. 2 Our judgments are inspired by our acts more than our acts by our judgments.— 1 Abbe Houx. A good woman is the noblest flower that blooms under heaven.—Thackeray. i Intellect annuls fate. So far as man :, thinks, he is free.—Emersoj. Faith is being, not "guessing, and the holding of immortality and immortal depth t of life.—J. Browniee Brown. ■We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life Sir grand moments that signify. Let the , measure of time be spiritual, not mecbanl--5 cal.—Emerson. 1 i Necessity seems to bear a divine character, while the determinations of the human will may be Imbned with pride.—lime, de StaeL He who is false to present duty breaks a thread In the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten Its cause.—H. Ward Beecher. It is not by his principles that I will lj judge a man; It is as natural to describe the chameleon by his colour or the mock- , bird by his note.—Sonthey. Noble disappointment, noble self-denial, are not to be admired, not even to be-par- '' doned, if they bring bitterness.—E. U ' Stevenson. . \ One of the mistakes that poison home 6 life is the unwillingness to yield In unlm- ! " portant trifles. The .desire always to have L * one's own way is very far from-the way of * life. 'Tls woman alone, with a firmer heart, h Can see the joys of life depart, a And love the more, and soothe and bless | c Man In his utter helplessness. In all God's providences, it Is good to .„ compare His Word and His Works together; for we shall And a beautiful har- * mony between them, and that they * mutually Illustrate each otber.-Mattbe* Elenry.