Tit-Bits.

Evening Post, Volume XLVI, Issue 19, 22 July 1893, Page 1 (Supplement)

Tit-Bits.

I will not kill nor hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful thing, but will strivo to save and comfort all gentle life, and guard and perfect all natural beauty upon tho earth.— -Ruskin. Such is our patienco, such our hatred of procrastination in everything but tho i amendment of our practices and adornment of our nature, one would imagine wo wero dragging Time along by force and not ho us. — Landor. No way has been found for making heroism easy, even for tho scholar. Labour, iron labour, is for him ; the atoms of which it is made are opportunities. — R. W. Emerson. Many have been ruined by their fortunes ; many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great. — Ziinmermann. We live in an age when to bo young and indifferent can be no longer synonymous. The youth of a nation are the trustees of posterity* — Earl of Beaconsfield. A strict belief in fate is the worst of slavery, imposing upon our necks an everlavting lord and tyrant, whom we are to standln awe of night and day. — Epicurus. If another Dickens were to break out tomorrow with tho riotous tomfoolery of Pickwick at the trial, or of Wellor and Stiggins, a thousand lucid criticisms would denounce it as vulgar balderdash. Glaucus and Nydia at Pompeii would be called melodramatic rant. The "House of Seven Gables " would be rejected by a sixpenny magazine, and "Jane Eyre" would not rise above a common " shocker." Hence the enormous growth of the " Kodak " sohool of romance — the snapshots at everyday realism with a hand camera. — Frederic Harrison, in tho Arena. A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, aud a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines that he holds are tiue and all he rejects are false. — Franklin. Nothing really succeeds which is not based on reality ; sham, in a lnrgo sense, is never successful. In the life of the individual, as in the more comprehensive life of the State, pretension is nothing and power is everything. — Whipplo A certain amount of opposition is a great help to man. Kites rise agaiuHt the wind, oven a head wind is better tlmn none. No man ever worked his passage anywhere in a dead calm. — Neal. " Never less idle than when idle," was the motto which the admirable Vittoria Colonna wrought upon her husband's dressing-gown. And may we not justly regard our appreciation of leisure as a teat of improved character and growing resources ? — Tukernam. Conscience^ is a blushing, shame-faced spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom. It fills one full of obstacles. — Shakespeare. Robinson Crusoe's island, Jaun Fernandez, is inhabited by about 60 persons, who attend to the herds of cattle that graze there. All things aro literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be Effort, aud the law of human judgment, Mercy. — Ruskin. It is a ourious fact, but one which can be easily verified, that persons aocußtomed to eating bread, puddings, macaroni, or like foods, find these preparation*, with their usual adjuncts, not only tasty and attractive to the appetite when they begin eating, but find them also quite as tasty aud tempting long after they have eaten greatly in excess of tn@i£ needs. In contrast to this, it will be found" by those who have substituted fruits for starch foods, amSrtfho have exclusively followed this diet for a few wol'j'", that while at the commencement of a meal these fruits are very tasty and enticing, the relish receded as the needs of the system arc supplied. The influence of the social current has the same effect upon human nature as that produced by the constant friction of the soa upon the pebbles on the beach. Rough cornors are polished and sharp angles smothed down into symmetrical proportions. I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning meet together. The sun, rising and declining, makes long shadows ; at midnight, when he is highest, none at all.— Bishop Hall. Firmness, both in sufferance aud exertion, is a character which I would wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and tho cowardly, feeble resolve. — Burns. Hope is a lover's staff ; walk hence with that, and manage it against despairing thoughts. — ShaKespeare. Calumny would soon starve and die of itself, if nobody took it in and gave it a lodging. — Archbishop Leigh ton. Bottor to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security. — Burke.