FLASHES OF THOUGHT.

Bush Advocate, Volume XIX, Issue 738, 11 June 1907, Page 7

FLASHES OF THOUGHT.

Youth's miscalculations — YoiuU hops an inch sideways and thinks it has leaped a mile ahead. — H. J. Locke in "The Beloved Vagabond.'' The power of enthusiasm.- -The most transforming force in the world is the sight of overpowering enthusiasm. — Arthur C. Benson in the World's Work. The admirable person. — Nothing is so irritating to those of us who are imperfect as the smugness of admirable folk. — W. Pitt Ridge, in the Queen. Coward or cowardice? — Tf conscience makes cowards of us all, cuv.ardice, on the other hand, gives some of us about all the conscience we ever knew. — Puck. The delight of the unknown. — N) journey is so delightful as that which leads no one knows whith-.H', and whose end is unforseen, even by the wayfarer himself. — The North American Review. Where London scores. — Thought 1 love Paris, it is not a place to live in for long together. It is too superficial. London is so much more solid and substantial. Prince Troubetzkoy. Sex and temperament. — A man is happy whenever he has anything to make him happy, but a woman is happy whenever she has nothing to make her happy. — The Speaker. Crying for the Moon. — There is no woman living who does not ask the impossible from life — that is, from the man she loves, or who she thinks ought to love her. — Ellen Duval in the Smart Set. Infants all. — The human race is only just beginning to realise its power of conscious control and instead of being effete and worn out. it is really in its infancy. — Sir Oliver Lodge. Genius and Death. — There is al- . ways something of interest in the view which a great man takes of old age and death. It is the practical test of how far the philosophy of his life has been a sound one. — Sir A. Conan Doyle in Cassell's Magazine. The individual and his label. — There is no distinction in being a man, but there is considerable distinction in being an omnibus-driver. Xot to be labelled is to be a failure. A man does not feel safe without a label on which are written his name and address and destination; he is afraid of finding himself in the lost property office of the world. — The Saturday Review.