MAXIMS AND MORALISINGS.

Bush Advocate, Volume XIX, Issue 738, 11 June 1907, Page 6

MAXIMS AND MORALISINGS.

A king is not in nature, lie is only in civilisation. — Napoleon. One should be firm by temperament, and flexible by reflection. — V.uivenargues. What one says signifies nothing, if 1 one lias not prepared the moment for saying it. — J. J. Rousseau. For a lunatic the worst misfortune is not to be thoroughly insane, and for a lover to analyse his love. — Paul Bourget. Good people have not all the .same brains, but they have the same heart and attain essentially the samo conclusions. — Jules Lema it-re. The lives of the majority <-f our contemporaries are ruled by the fatal error that the more one possesses tlie more one enjoys. — Paul S.ib.-;v.it-r. The opinion which a iu:m has of himself is formed by the opinions which others have of nioi. Wl-y should I respect myself, it others have

no respect for me? — Edward Pa Heron 1 : J Tlie greatest merit of somo men i^ their wife. — Poincelot. One of the sweetest pleasuros of n woman is to cause regret. — Gr/:;rni, One always does willingly what 0:1 1: likes ; if you like tho good you will do it. — Vinot. Tlie chief condition of social happiness is abandonment of our highest aspirations. Society is not Jiaiic for individuals but for .society. ■ - Paul Flat.