WORDS OF THE WISE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 174, 22 July 1916, Page 31

WORDS OF THE WISE.

Hope Is a good breakfast, bat ■ bad supper.—Francis Bacon. Genlie begins fine works, but only labour achieves them.—Joubert. What -we get we mast earn. If it t> to be truly onre.—David Btarr Jordan. To know when to let things alone is a nigh pitch of good senee.—Halifax. It la deatrtiful only to do the thing we are meant for.—Clough. Sweet Is the smile of home; (he mutual look Wihen hearts are of each other sure. —John Keble. TBiere nary be wisdom In a multitude of counsellors, but it is only In one or two of them."—Huxley, "Lettere." .Never epeak bnt when yon have something to say. Wherefore shonM'et thou run when thou hast no tidings I—Butler. Next to acquiring good friends, the "best acquisition is that of good books.—C. C. Colton. A pious man said: "If I Ignored the exlsttence of God, I ■would adore the enn and women. Our donbte are traitors and make ns lose the good we oft might win.—enakespearc. Nothing lovelier can be found In woman than to study household good. —Milton. Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudices, eradicate virtue, honesty, and religion. —Dean Swift. A life of pleasure cannot support ttself so long as one of business, but Is much more subject to eatlety and disgust.— Hums. On every occasion that leads thee to vexation, apply this principle—that though this is a misfortune, to bear tt nobly is good fortune. —Mareua Anrellus. The blessings of fortune ar» the lowest, the next are the bodily advantages of strength end health; but tne rniperlatlTe blessings, In fine, are those of the mind. —I/Ertrange. Aβ there can always be found In this world plenty of things to find fault •with, so there can always be found an untold number of blessings. Never etop to worry because some people are Setter off thm yon are; rather lreep your heart frfil of thankfnlness because you are so much better off than are thousands of other human beings.

iLet us conclude by Baying to yon, what I hare had too frequent occasions to e»y to my other remaining old friends, the fewer we become the more let us lore one another.—Benjamin Franklin. Poets ehootd be la-w-gtrera, tbat is, the boldest lyric Inspiration should not chide, and Insult, bnt should announce and lead the civil code and the day's work.— Emerson.

Men's wards are a poor exponent of their thought; nay, their thought itself Is a poor exponent of the inw&rd unnamed mystery wherefrom both thought and action have their birth. —Cnrlylc. There la a road from the eye to the heart that does not so through the intellect Men never dispute that tne hawthorn says the brightest and -wittiest thing about the eprtng.—Chesterton.