TIT-BITS.

Evening Post, Volume XLIV, Issue 74, 24 September 1892, Page 1 (Supplement)

TIT-BITS.

i __ __ S'f T " >mas ore waß 80 struck self to the tender xnerow. - "Nature's soft nurse" till he haa prayed to Heaven for protection. Imagination is a mettled horse, that will break the rider's neck, when a donkey would have carried him to the end of his journey, blow but sure — Southey. Never be discouraged with yourself. It is not when we are conscious of our faults that we are the most wicked. On the contrary, we are less so. We see by a brighter light ; and let us remember for our consolation that we never perceive our sins till we begin to cure them. Nothing flatters a man so much as the happiness of his wife. He is always proud of himself as the source of it. Never consider that vanity an offence which limits itself to wishing for the praise of good men for their good actions. — Bulwer Lytton. Science is like the rain from heaven ; if a drop of it fall into a gaping oyster, it becomes a pearl ; if into a viper's mouth it turns to poison. The quarrels of lovers are like summer showerß, that leave the country more verdant and beautiful. Intelligent people make many blunders, because they never believe the world as stupid as it is. Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is by far the most dangerous. It is better to sow a good heart with kindness than a field with corn, for the heart's harvest is perpetual. There are hours in life when the most trifling annoyances assume the proportions of a catastrophe. Insult not misery, neither deride infirmity. Circumstances that render us frail only show how frail we are. He only seems to me to live and enjoy life who, intent on some employment, seekß reputation from some ennobling enterprise or honourable pursuit. One is more honest in youth, and to the age of 30 years, than when he has passed it. It is only after that age that one's illusions are dispelled. Until then, one resembles the dog that defends the dinner of his master against other dogs ; after this period, he takes his share of it with the others. — Chamf ort. Eiches massed in haste will diminish ; but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply. — Goethe. For one virtue that makes us walk, how many vices make us run ! There are some faults which, when well managed, make a greater figure than virtue itself. Tho author of a great reformation is always unpopular in his own age. He generally passes his life in disquiet and danger. It iB, therefore, for the interest of the human race that the memory of such men should be had in reverence, and that they should be supported against the scorn and hatred of their contemporaries by the hope of leaving a great and imperishable name. To go on the forlorn hope of truth is a service of peril — who will undertake it, if it be not also a service of honour ? It is easy enough, after the ramparts are carried, to find men to plant the flag on the topmost tower. The difficulty is to find men who are ready to go first into the breach. — Lord Macaulay. There never did, and never will, exist anything permanently noble and excellent in a character which was a stranger to the exercise of resolute self-denial. — Scott. Equity judgeth with lenity, laws with extremity. In all moral cases, the reason of the law is the law. — Scott. Where necessity ends curiosity begins, and no sooner are we supplied with everything that nature can demand than we sit down to contrive artificial appetites. A man's character is like his shadow, which sometimes follows and sometimes precedes him, and which is occasionally longer, occasionally shorter than he is. Everything falls and is effaced. A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet bo much tumult on the surface ! It would lessen very much the severity with which men judge of each other, if they would but trace effects to their causes, and observe the progress of things in the moral as accurately as in the physical world. The highest value of woman to the community is as mother. Any custom, any law, any work, which depreciates her value in this capacity, is injurious to the race. The beautiful in the heart is a million times of more avail in securing domestic happiness than the beautiful in the face. Those who think themselves good Protestants, from their animosity to others, are in that respect no Protestants at all. — Burke. In borrowing money, be precious of thy word — for he that hath care of keeping dregs of payment is lord of another man's purse. — Cecil. Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls. Though vices repel, they do not always separate us from those we : love.