Tit-Bits.

Evening Post, Volume XLVI, Issue 132, 2 December 1893, Page 1 (Supplement)

Tit-Bits.

He who can take advice is BomeMmea superior to him who cau give it.-T-Von Knebel. There is no other way of obtaining light and intelligence but by the labour of attention. When a girl begins to do wrong, she cannot answer for herself how far she may be carried on. She does not see beforehand ; she cannot know where she will nnd herself after the sin is committed. One false step leads to another ; one evil concession requires another. It is the type of an eternal truth — that the sonl's armour is never well set to the heart unless a woman's hand has braced it, and it is only when she braces it loosely that the honour of manhood fails.— Ruskin. Hitherto I have been an exile from my I true country ; now I return thither. So not weep for me. I return to that celestial land where each goes in his turn. There, is God. This life is but a death.— Hermes Trismegistus. He who makes a baseless insinuation against a neighbour's integrity or honour is guilty of an injustice which ia atrocious and monstrous in comparison with the petty depredation of the despicable thief who breaks into his granary and surreptitiously carries away his corn. For myself I am certain that the good of human life cannot lie in tho possession of things which for one man to possess is for the rest to lose, but rather in things which all can possess alike, nnd vrhero one man's wealth promotes his neighbour's.— Spinoza. There is a mystery in a man's inheritance from his fathers. Peculiarities of the miud, as diseases of the body, rest dormant for generations, to revive in some distant descendant, baffle all treatment, and elude all skill.— Bui wer Lytton. Let him who regrets the loss of time make proper use of that which is to come in the future.— O'Connell Never relate your misfortune, and never grieve over what you 6annot prevent. — 'Howitt. No joy so neat but runneth to an end. No hap so nard but may ia time amend. -Southwell. He who is always in want of something cannot be very rich. He is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions, and actions of others. It is no vanity for a man to pride himself upon what he has honestly got and prudently uses. — Tait. Smiles are the higher and better responses of nature to the emotion of the soul. — Wilberforce. No man should do more work of musole or of brain than he can perfectly recover from the fatigue of in a good night's rest. — Dr. Bright. When you make an engagement never keep anyone waiting. You have no right to waste the time of others. If you are half an hour behind time in fulfilling an engagement you may cause half a dozen people to fail in their appointments, and untold perplexities and delays may come out of just that little short-coming of yours which you look upon as such a trifling thing. Under Draco'i laws, enacted at Athens, 621 b. 0., all idltrs were ezeouted, the law being carried out to the letter with as muoh severity as though the offender had been found guilty of murder In our lives there is a crisis -in the formation of character. It comes from many causes, and from some which on the surface are apparently trivial. But the result is the same — a sudden revelation to ourselves of our secret purposes, and a recognition of our perhaps long-shadowed but now masterful convictions. It is related that when Phidias, the great sculptor, who carved statues for one of the great temples of antiquity, was labouring with minute fidelity upon the hair at the back of the head of one of the historic figures whioh was to be elevated from the pavement to the very apex of the building, or placed among tho frieze, someone expostulated with him, saying, "Why do you take such pains with the hair? It will never be seen." His simple reply was — "The gods will see it." , So he laboured thoroughly iv the minutest things, not for the eye of man, but for the eyes of the go4s./-H. W. Beecher. We finish by excusing our faults, but we alwayß blush at our blunders. t To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great wisdom ; and to forgive it, of great mind. Nonsense when earnest is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry you sometimes mistake it for sense. — Beaconsfield. Love seems to survive life and to reach beyond it. ... Bo we not still give it to those who.have left us f— Thackeray. There is hardly anything that some people will not part with for money. — Queen Elizabeth. . • Let earl; care tby laiuu concerns secure. Things of less momaut may delays eiidun-. — Denham. The moving fiugw writes, and having wit, moves on ; nor all your piety nor wit can lure it back to cancel half a line ; nor all your tears wipe out a word of it. — Omar Kayam. The gifted man is he who ices the essential point, and leaves all the rest aside as surplusage.— Cariylo. How soon an inquisitive child can puzzle a wise parent. Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.— S. T Coleridge.