GRAINS OF GOLD.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 7416, 13 July 1895, Page 6 (Supplement)

GRAINS OF GOLD.

Do not ask your kindness merely as a bribe.—Chevy.

I think thy thoughts after thee, 0 God.—Kepler, the Astronomer.

Confidence in conversation has a greater share than wit—Rochefoucauld.

Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges. — v -cott.

Nations, like individuals, live or die, but civilization cannot perish.—Maz-

He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own. —Confucius.

None pities him that's in the snare, who, warned before, would not beware. —Herrick.

The first condition of human goodness is something to love ; the second is something to reverence.—George —Eliot.

Rare almost as great poets, rather perhaps than veritable saints and martyrs, ate consummate men of business. Helps.

The free and lovely impulses of hospitality, the faithful attachment of friends—these too, aro a holy religion to the heart.—Schiller.

He who plants a tree,' he plants love ; heaven and earth help him who plants a tree,' and his work its own reward shall be.—Lucy Larcom.

The conqueror is regarded with awe, the wise man commands our respect ; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affections. —Anon.

Whatever you buy or sell, let or hire, make a definite bargain, and never trust to the flattering lie, ' We shan't disagree about trifles.'—Anon.

All the higher arts of design are essentially chaste. They purify the thoughts, as tragedy, according to Aristotle, purifies the passions.—Schlegel.

Why, of all living, art thou made capable of blushing ? The world shall read thy shame upon thy face ; therefore, do nothing shameful.—Brahminic.

She kept the gift of the fairy—the beautiful gift—to the end ; and whenever her heart touched another she found the heart of a friend.—M. E. Sangster.

Philip of Macedon refuted by gold all the wisdom of Athens, confounded their statesmen, struck their orators dumb and at length argued them out of all their liberties.—Addisojt