Tit-Bits.

Evening Post, Volume XLVII, Issue 59, 10 March 1894, Page 1 (Supplement)

Tit- Bits.

When you bury an evil habit, do not vi&it the grave too often. One of the strongest characteristics of geoius is the power of lighting its own fire. — J. Foster. In character,- in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity. SufHcent for the right is the consciousness of being right. Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths iv a riddle to the dull. — Bulwer. Playing a man's part we may come to see that suffering is an accident and not the substance of life, that evil is a shadow haunting certain portions of a pathway that is everywhere pervaded by a " kindly light ; " we come to perceive that it is man's part to empale natural contingencies within natural necessity, and step by step as he advances to enlarge his interference with Nature, and augment his ascendancy over her. — Sir James Crichton Browne. The glory of love is that which takes delight in doing gratuitously what nobody else would do if paid for it. "Whether we seek our own or another's welfare, our conduct must be mainly on the same lines. In this way we shall find that the chums that seemed at first to be contradictory really melt into each other. A sound discretion is not so much indicated by nover making a mistake as by never repeating it. I see no limit to the extent to which intelligence and will, guided by sound principles of investigation, and organised in common effort, may modify the conditions of existence for a period longer than that covered by history. — Huxley. Jealousy forbids all ounl jws of affection or generosity into any oilier channels than its own, thus inflicting untold injury to all concerned. Only when knowing and doing are combined is a proper self • cousciousnessawakened — the basis of character-building. Doing demands time and exertiou, and therefore strengthens the moral powers. A successful man usually has four metallic qualifications— gold in his pocket, silver in his tonguo, brass in his face, and iron in his heart. It is not the ignorant man who is to be blamed, but he who doesn't know enough to find it out. " I look upon death," says Dr. Franklin,' " to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning." Silence may be golden or it may be leaden. It may be the silence of wisdom and selfmastery, or it may be the silence of stupidity and cowardice —the silence of the owl or the silence of the sphinx When men and women have learned that there is no charity in indiscriminate and reckless alms-giving, and that the only rational benevolence lies in withholding that which is a direct incentive to pauperism, they will have learned one of the most important lessons of life. Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest hoirow frequently has no tears I fiud that where all fat-forming ingredients aie cut out of tho dietary, aud the quantity of food adjusted to the requirements of the individu.il, threo or four htones of fat may be got rid of pei maueutly in three or four month?, with vast improvement in the general health and condition, aud auy amount of water may be taken daily— the more the better, if it is free from sugar.— Dr. N. E. York-Davies. In all the arrangements of a home the ease aud comfort of the mother should be considered before all things. This is her right. Nor is it less tho interest of the family, for their happiness depends chiefly upon her health and cheerfulness. Never assent merely to please others, for that is besides flattery, oftentimes untruth, and discovers a mind liable to be servile and base. Neither contradict to vex others, for that shows an ill-temper, and provokes but profits nobody. All experienceliath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. All simple people are not great, but all great people are simple. A hero is known in war, a friend is known in necessity, and a wite girl ia known in anger. ■ Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks. — H. W. Beecher. Imagination ia a lamp which lights up the whole of life, and the better cure it receives the clearer and purer it burns.