WORDS OF THE WISE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 156, 1 July 1916, Page 21

WORDS OF THE WISE.

fteSlng ceres mate grey haiis. .Vanity la the sixth insatiable sense.— Cartyle. We pitter the honey of wißdom from ttonis, not from flowers. A pennyweight of love is better than a Irandred -weight of law. Ttj it if there is sfeod m yonr family.—C. IH. Spurgeon. The people who complain most of the trantai and wretchedness of life are the latt-learted workers. Wlo fights -with passion and o'ercomes, tot man is armed with the best virtoe— PisdTe fortitude.—WebsteT. Die essence of Irumour is sensibility, *ua, tender fellow-feeling with ail forms <* existence.— Carlyle. Friendship doses its eyes, ratiier than see <le moon eclipsed: while malice denies fiut it is ever at the fnll.-Ha.re. He who id\s a lie !f not sensible how Peat a task "he -undertakes, for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain (M.—Pope. The natures of some people are so rigid ftat love appears to be frozen ont of them. ""I may like and admire, but they are not Wpable of trnly loving anybody. To weigh other minds by our own is the Wse scale by -which the greater number of M miscalculate all human actions and most •"eon characters. Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not Prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented, him from flonndering in absu-rdity. I-ogie is °oe tMog, and commonsense another. Is power of applying our attention, steady and andissipatod . to a single oh te* Is the sure mark of superior genius.— QssterfleJd. Iβ the beginning of slavery. A n «ditor Is worse than a master; for a mas- '* Possesses only your person; a creditor loesses yoar digntty, and can spurn it "tta a Wow.—Victor .Hlngo. "5* trae felicity of life Is to be free pertiHirations, to understand oar duties to God and -man; to enjoy the presc °t without any anxious dependence npon xi * future. The great blessings of man*tad are within us and within our reach.— a. d . so. °ne of the saddest d-omestire features ° f the day is the disrepute Into which "oiisekct'ping has faHen. for that is a woman's first natural duty and answers to m c needs of her best nature. It Is by j>o means necessary that she should be > Cinderella among Uie asues or a PenePc for ever at her needle, but all woman notwithstanding that good H i; i s a liberal science, and that there meet intimate connexion between food virtue, and food and health, and food «•« ttODEllt.-.imella 13. Barr.