GOOD WORDS.

Clutha Leader, Volume XX, Issue 1038, 15 June 1894, Page 7

GOOD WORDS.

It takes a lifetime of experience to teach us that we are our own best friend i that we are our own worst enemy we never learn There is no social beauty where disorder prevails, no national beauty where law is set at naught, no beauty of life where the true ends of life are disregarded. A man who knowg the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but many things he does not know, and will gain more credit by his adroit mode, of hiding his ignorance than the pedant by his awkwai'd attempt to exhibit his erudition. Just as moments of recreation, rightly spent, will prove their value, by fitting us better to perform our regular work, so whatever is extraordinary in life, if rightly received, will revive and strengthen our interest in its common daily experiences, which are so rich in meaning and so replete with suggestions of duty and of improvement, of power, love, happiness. Time can be truly saved only when it is well spent, and only well spent when we ari in the right place, developing those faculties in which we most excel, and thus raising ourselves in value as the years £>o by. What we do will always correspond with what are, and the thorough cultivation of health and welfare in their best sense is as necessary to the excellence and success of our labours as it is. to our personal happines?. Accepting gratefully the many benefits it freely gives, an honourable man will feel himself bound to do what he can for the world's welfare to leave it better off in some respect at least for his having lived in it. The whole past progress of mankind has been thus brought about, and future progress must depend upon the same means.