TIT BITS.

Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 148, 6 November 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)

TIT BITS.

Not a day passes but men and women of no noto do great deeds, speak great wordssuffer noblcsorrows. [ Women are designed by their gentle nature to endear domestic life to mau, to make virtue lovely to children, to spread around thorn order and grace, and to give society its highest polish. No attainments should be above beings whose end and aim are to accomplish purposes at once so refining and so salutary ; every means should bo used £0 invigorate by principle and culture such native excellence and grace. What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life — to strengthen each other in all labour, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting ? Throw away idle hopes ; come to thine own aid, if thou careat at all for thyself, while it is in thy power. — Marcus Aurelius. If you wish to be miserable you must think about yourself — about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay to you, what people ought to think of you — and then to you nothing will be pure. You will spoil everything you touch ; you will make 6iu and misery for yourself out of everything which God sends you ; you will be 'as wretched as you choose. Four things come not back — the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity. Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket ; and do not pull it out and strike it merely to Bhow that you have one. If you are asked what o'clock it is, tell it, but do not proclaim it loudly and unasked, like the watchman. The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but of the naturo of learning, whereas the experience gained from, actual life is of the nature of wisdom ; and a small store of the latter is worth j vastly more than any stock of the I former. Tho more we know, the greater our thirst for knowledge. The water-lily., in tho midst of waters, opens its leaves and expands its petals at the first pattering of showers, and rejoices in the raindrops with a quicker sympathy than the parched shrub in the sandy desnrt. An active life is tho best guardian of virtue, and the greatest preservative of health. We have to make our choice in life, and to abide by the results of our decision when made. We cannot go on two different ways at once, nor take a deep draught and keep the oup still full, nor spend and save. We can make a loaf of bread or a cup of beer at our pleasure, but we cannot make both out of the measure of meal that is enough for only one. Which shall it be ? is the great question to be asked of each of 119. The multitude perceive scarcely anything at all, but whatever the men of authority give out tpat they sing. — Plato. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.— Buikeiy^.