Tit-Bits.

Evening Post, Volume XLVIII, Issue 24, 28 July 1894, Page 1 (Supplement)

Tit-Bits.

Anger in itself is not sinful. Christ, whose perfection is the root aud law of ours, was sometimes angry. It would be sinful not to be kindled to indignation by baseness, treachery, cruelty, and hypocrisy. But anger must not be suffered to break out into violence. It must be kept within the control of conscience and reason. It must not he poisoned by malignity, nor degenerate into revenge. And the heat, tho agitation of it, must soon be repressed. — R. W. Dale. Enjoy what you have, and do not be envious of those who have more than you have. The soul is elevated, the heart is inflamed, by contemplating the highest models. — Rousseau. We feed upon what we read, but digest only what we meditate upon. Strive manfully ; habit is overcome by habit. — Thomas a Kempis. Money in the hands of character and ability ia always a blessing. It opens up opportunities, it promotes welfare and happiness in every direction. But money in the hands of the weak and the characterless is a curse both to the possessor and to society. It is simply wasted. Men of many words sometimes argue for the sake of talking ; men of ready tongues frequently dispute for the sake of victory ; men in public life often debate for the sake of opposing the ruling party, or from any other motive than the love of truth. — Crabbe. Cheerfulness charms us with a spell that reaches into eternity, and wo would not exchange it for all the soulless beauty that over graced the fairest form on earth. — Anna Cleaves. Show me the man you admire, I know by that symptom, better than any other, what kind of a man you yourself are. For you show me there whntyour ideal of manhood is ; what kind of a man you long inexpressibly to be.— Cariyle. To be free-minded and cheerfully disposed at hours cf meat, sleep, and ex> rciae is one of the K-iC precepts of long lasting- — Lord Bacon. Against stupidity the gods themselves are powerless. — Schiller. One of the most difficult problems — How to wisely administer charity. The real religion of the world comes from w>men much more than from men. — O. W. Holmes. Think all you can of the good qualities of others ; forget and keep silent concerning their bad qualities. Real worth floats not with people's | fancies no more than a rock in the sea rises and falls with the tide.— Fuller. Criticism never hears the gospel. Mere genius never hears it. Broken-heartedness always hears it.— Dr. Joseph Parker. No true man can live a half life when he has genuinely learned that it is only a half life. The other half, the higher half, must haunt him. — Phillips Brooks. The tendency to persevere, to persist in spite of hindrances, discouragements, and impossibilities— it is this that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak. —Cariyle. Many ran about after happiness like an absent-minded man hunting after his hat while it is on his head or in his hand. Anguish of miud has driven thousands to suicide ; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receives. Write your name in kindness, love, and mercy on the hearts of thousands you come in contact with year by year, and you will' never be forgotten. — Chalmers. , Kindness draws out tho better part of every nature —disarming resistance, dissipating angry passions, aud melting the hardest heart. — Samuel Smiles. Gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it. — Epicurus. Tho true and only coward is he who never has an opinion and never wants one. Often do we think when we ought to act, and act when it behoves us to reflect; heuce caution is frequently as fatal as rashness. It is with narrow- souled people as with narrow-necked bottles — the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out. — Pope. Life is an earnest business, and no man .was ever made great or good by a diet of broad grins. — John S. Blackie. As many faults come from our not esI teeming ourselves enough as from esteeming ourselves too much. — Montesquieu. | As small letters hurt the sight, so do small matters him that is too much intent upou them. — Plutarch. The grave of Aynsley Cook in Annfield Cemetery, Liverpool, is kept as green as his memory by loviug hands.