Tit-Bits.

Evening Post, Volume XLVII, Issue 112, 12 May 1894, Page 1 (Supplement)

Tit-Bits.

Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired ; they admired great things ; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly. — Thackeray. Firmness and gentleness work together far more efficiently than either could alone. The strength that is allied to sweetness has a far deeper aud wider influence than would be possible were it accompanied by bitter criticism. The road to home-happiness lies over small stepping-stones. Some men are at home everywhere ; others are at home no-" where. He is the happiest, be he king or peasant,_ who finds peace in his home. The first indication of domestic happiness is the love of one's home. Some persons cun be everywhere at home ; others can sit musingly at home and be everywhere. Every mau longs to get rich, and then puts off until next month his determination to save money. The day of the delicate girl has gone by. To be interesting the young gentlewoman of to-day must be strong aud robust. Whoever raises himself to a higher stature in character, in intelligence, in skill, in industry, in health of body, in vigour of mind, and in fidelity to the best that he can discover, is, in so doing, fulfilling a large part of the debt ho owes to the world. There is only one kind of hatred the Fruit of which is peace — the hatred of self. —Hare. There is nothing so true, so sincere, and Forthright as Genius ; it is always truer than the man himself is — greater than he. It is not stupidity, but the conceit of stupidity, that annoys. A good memory is no evideuoe of superior intelligence, but a terrible nuisance when your tailor's about. The mind of a proud man is like a mushroom which starts up in the night ; his business is just to forget himself, and then bis friends. There is nothing which marks more decidedly the character of men and of nations than the manner in which they treat women.— Herder. The whole world is put in motion by the desire of wealth, which is chiefly to be valued as it secures us from poverty ; for it is more useful for defence than acquisition, and is not bo much able to secure as to exclude evil. — Dr. Johnson. The lips that sing our gayest barcarolles in society often have barely strength enough to murmur a broken prayer in the solitude of their lonely hours, when the mask is off and the green curtain down. Life is too short to waste either in idleness or overwork. Some men work too little, and lose their health by inactivity — by the lack of sufficient exertion to keep the body in good condition. Others ruin their constitutions by overwork ; and among this class are the thirty business men who, in their prosperous career, are making money so rapidly that they begrudge the time for a little necessary recreation. How noiseless is thought ! No rolling of drums, no tramp of squadrons, or immeasurable tumult of baggage -waggons, attends its movements ; in what obscure and sequestered places may the head be meditating which is ouo day to be orowned with more than imperial authority ; for kings and emperors will be amongst its ministering servants ; it will rule not over, but in, all heads, and with these its solitary combinations of ideas, as with magic formulas, bend the world to its will. The time may come when Napoleon himself will be better known for his laws than for his battles ; and the victory of Waterloo prove less momentous than the opening of the first Mechanics' Institute. — Thomas Carlyle. Woman are created to refine joys and soften .the cares of humanity by the most agreeable anticipation. — Addisou. lunocent mirth of every description inspires a sympathetic pleasure and works a good that is contagious. Wit and humour are amongst the great refreshments of life, and are gifts in trust to thobe who possess them for the cheer and exhilaration of mankind. "Pay as you go,' 1 and save enough to come back on. Liars are seldom good, but they are often skilful and talented. The basis and groundwork of friendship is the forgetting of self through the sympathy which must always exist between real friends. With such a starting-point, friendship must lead to a better, nobler life, to higher ideas, and to purer desires. Many spurn the idea of contentment as involving aa idle and aimless condition of mind that is satisfied with thing? as they are because it has|no aspirations of anything better. This mere apathy, however, contains none of the elements of real content. It is a negative, not a positive, a lack of energy, ambition, hope, effort, and whatever oontributes to human pi ogress. Contentment, on the other haiTd, is an actual presence, a principle which gives strength and support — which not only does not interfere with energy and effort, but actually prepares the why for tliem by the peace of mind and serenity it gives.