GOOD WORDS.

Clutha Leader, Volume XVI, Issue 831, 20 June 1890, Page 3

GOOD WORDS.

: + A bird is known by its note, and a man by his talk. The art of life is to know how to enjoy little and endure much. A good life is the best way to understand wisdom and religion. The best education in the world is that, got by struggling to get a living. He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him that can give it. Better a little in peace with right than much with anxiety and strife. By silence I hoar other people's perfection and correct my own. imperfections. — Zeno. Wedlock (says Douglas Jerrold) is like, wine, not properly judged until the second glass. '. Eat only pure food* drink only pure liquids, think only pure thoughts, and keep your blood pure. There are lying looks as well as lying words, dissembling smiles, deceiving signs, and even a' lying silence. Our words and actions to bo fair must be timely. — Emerson. A man really and practically looking onward to an immortal life, on whatever grounds, exhibits to us the human soul in an ennobled attitude.' x A man who does me a wrong injures himself; v/hat, then, shall I do myself a further wrong by injuring him % — • Epictetus. * There is a selfishness even in gratitude when it is too profuse ; to be overthankful for one favor is in effect to lay out for another. : Sedentary employments are less favorable to health than active ones, but a good posture can do much to help in this matter. , , Honour is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least impurity-- without jdaraage ; it is a precious stone, the price of which is lessened by the least I flaw. ....