TIT-BITS.

Evening Post, Volume XLL, Issue 68, 21 March 1891, Page 1 (Supplement)

TIT-BITS.

In wonder all philosophy began, iv wonder it ends, and admiration fills up the interspace. But the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance ; the last is the parent of adoration. The first is the birth-throe of our knowledge ; the last is its cuthanasy and apotheosis. — Coleridge. Matrimony. — Hotbuckwheatcake; comfortable slippers; smoking coffee; buttons ; redeemed stockings ; bootjacks — happiness. Bachelorhood — Sheet-iron quilts ; blue noses ; frosty rooms ; ice in tho pitcher ; unregonerated linen ; hcelless stockings ; coffee sweetened with icicles ; guttapercha biscuits ; flabby steaks ; dull razors ; corns ; coughs and colics ; rhubarb ; aloes — misery. Anything which is not flattery seems injustice to a woman. When society is aware that you think it a flock of geese, it revenges itself by hissing loudly behind your back. It is usually looked upon to be the right of each particular peer of the realm to demand an audience of the sovereign, and to lay before him with decency and respect such- matters as ho shall judge of importance to the public weal. And, therefore, in the reign of Edward 11. it was made an article of impeachment against the two Hugh Spencers, father and son, for which they were banished the kingdom "that they, by their evil covin, would not suffer the great men of the realm, the King's good counsellors, to speak with the King or to come near him," but only in their presence and hearing. It may be useful to mention that no sealed letter can be presented to the sovereign by the Lord Chamberlain ; all such communications must be open aud without seal. The tide will fetch away what the ebb brings. Weigh well your words, lest they be swords. A good conscience is the finest opiate. He who has much spirit makes most of his life. The best of prophets of the future is the past. The step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. Suffering is the surest moans of making us truthful to ourselves. Hate makes us vehement partisans, but love still more bo. — Goethe. If most people tried as hard to please othersas they try to get others to please them, what a delightful place this world would be ! To ensure health, so far as human effort can control the matter, one should, above all things, be cheerful, contented, and calm. To read well — that is, to read true books in a true spirit — is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object. Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.— -jjfhoreau. There neve; qi isted, and never will exist, permanently noble and ex cellbnt in a character which is a Hratigor to the exercise of resoluto self - donial. — Sir Walter Scott. Wo always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune. A girl is wise so long as she seeks wisdom. When she confidently asserts that she has gained it, she is wise no longer. Moralists say that a soul should resist passiou. They might as well say that a house should resist an earthquake. The world is not a racecourse or a battlefiold or a prize-fight. It is a place in which each man is given his own sphere to occupy and his own duty to do ; and if that sphere be occupied honourably and that duty be done well, every man ia undoubtedly a victor and a " fit survivor." Two thousand summers have imparted to the monuments of Greek literature, as to her marbles, only a maturer, golden, and autumnal tint, for they have carried their own serene and celestial atmosphere into all lands to protect them against the corrosion of time. — Thoreau. " I become more convinced every day I live," says Lady Blessington, "that quiet and repose are the secrets of happiness, for I never feel so near an approach to this blessing as when in the possession of them. General society is a heavy tax on time and patience, and one that I feel every year less inclination to pay, as I witness the bad effect it produces, not only on the habits, but on the mind." Children should be taught to take care of and wait upon themselves. " I can afford to have servants to wait on my children." Then you can afford to spoil your children, that's all. Children should wait on themselves. You have got an only boy, and there are two servants to wait upon him, and they trot up and down the stairs to wait upon him, to get his boots, and almost help to put them on. You are spoiling that boy.