Odds and Ends from all Quarters.

Hastings Standard, Issue 19, 18 May 1896, Page 4

Odds and Ends from all Quarters.

The moral law is more precious than the personal happiness of any; ami the sufferings of exceptional cases must he borrr with resignation, lest harm bef- IT -L-- sanctity of every home, and " r >ral currency be debased."— Fn_ , ri.k Harrison. -:■■■ is no benefit so large but ir-ali'- . will still lessen it ; none so r: s rr,,*A which a good interpretation will not enlarge. No man can ever be grateful who views a benefit on the wrong side, or takes a good office by the wrong handle.—Seneca. Love may exist without jealousy, although this is rare ; but Jealousy may exist without love, and this is common; for jealousy can feed on that which i-s bitter no less than on that which is sweet, and that is sustained by pride as often as by affection.—Colton. There is a species of crow in India which assembles in flocks of about twenty or thirty in the recesses of forests, and whose note is exactly like the human voice in loud laughing, so that a person ignorant of the real cause would fancy that a very merry party was close at hand. What a chimera is man! What a confused chaos! What a subject of contradictions! A professed judge of all things, and yet a feeble worm of the earth ! The great depositary and guardian of truth, and yet a mere bundle of uncertain ties! The glory and the shame of the universe !—Pascal. It takes twenty years to bring man from the state of embryo, and from that of a mere animal, as he is in his first infancy, to the point when his reason begins to dawn. It has taken thirty centuries to know his structure ; it would take eternity to know something of his soul; it takes but an instant to kill him.—Voltaire.