ODDS AND ENDS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

Hastings Standard, Issue 3, 29 April 1896, Page 3

ODDS AND ENDS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

It costs more to revenge injuries than to bear them.

Servility is to devotion what hypocrisy is to virtue.

Moonlight is sculpture ; sunlight is painting.—Hawthorne. Love makes time pass, and time makes love pass.—l'roverb. To be happy is not to enjoy: it is not to suffer. —Easpail. If you would succeed in life, rise early and be an economist of time.

Despise no one ; for everyone knows some thing thou knowest not. To select well among old thing is almost equal to inventing new ones.—l'rublet. The great are great only because we are on our knees. Let us rise !—l'rudhomme.

We like those to whom we do good better than those who do us good.—De Saint Real.

The pi>] ,: '*! the public! How many fools do< i i.is 'o make up a public ? Chamfo', If W( TV's f iirl'.s PurfC!'. US. ' -hould not tak pL.i- iv in obser 1 .t1i0.-.'-other? » In '.i' ■- - f i-iirht und wnr«>t;, for y 1 dtridi fw *.-.nm-U. -tali-i by yourself.

Belting having jointa <i cj" :,. as good as if the belt were foi'Wti! ■>! - ini J leather from end to end. It lasts much longer, and drives better than when cut up with sewing. "We are always living under some delusion, and instead of taking tilings as they are and making the best of them, we follow an ignis fatuus, and lose, in its pursuit, the joy we might attain. —James Ellis.

Nature has lent us life, as we do a sum of money; only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason, then, to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on that condition that we received it. —Cicero. Charity is not the watchword of the Faith of the future. The watchword of the faith of the future is association and fraternal co-operation of all towards a common aim, anil this is far superior to all charity.—Mazzini. The secret of succcess is to be ready for the opportunity. Thy secret is thy prison ; if thou let it go thou art a prisoner to it.

The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of conscious happiness of having acted with humanity. A well-known man in Chicago lives in an exact copy on a small scale of Windsor Castle.

Riches only a'lorn the house, but virtue adorn the person. The man who lias no opinion of himself at all can never be hurt if others do not acknowledge him. There is in men a true and false dignity. The man of real dignity never has to guard it, he never stands on his dignity, except when he tramples it under foot for some good and noble purpose, and then the dignity that he has scorned comes and clothes him.

The follies, vices, and consequent miseries of multitudes, displayed in a newspaper, .ore so many admonitions and warnings—so many beacons, continually burning to turn others from the rock on which they have been shipwrecked.