SCRAPS.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1860, 26 February 1892, Page 3

SCRAPS.

Hearts may agree though heads differ. He that sips of many arts, drinks of none. The essence of all vulgarity lies in want of sensation.—Ruskin.

Vigour, energy, resolution, firmness of purpose—these carry the day. If is said that friendship between women is only a suspension of hostilities.

The official colour of German Government books is white, and of British, blue.

There are occasions and causes, why and wherefore, in all things.—Shakespeare. A word rashly spoken cannot be brought back by a chariot and four horses.—Chinese.

"He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and be who is good is happy."

Old friends are best. King Janes was wont to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet.

The glory is in the east in the morning, it is in the west in'the afternoon, and when it is dark the splendour is irradiating the realm of the under world—Alex. Smith. The lowest body of water on the globe is the Cafpian Sea. The level has been gradually lowering for centuries, and now it is eightyfive feet below the level of its neighbour—the Black Sea. " As dead as a door-nail," found in English texts over five hundred years old, comes from the wooden pin or nail used to secure the door of a hut, which by constant use would become very smooth, hard, dry, and ' dead. Of the laws of Nature, on which the condition of man depends, that which is atttended with the greatest number of consequences is the necessity of labour for obtaining the means of the greatest part of our pleasure. There is only one lamp which we can carry in our hand, and which will burn through the darkest night, and make the light of a home for us in a desert place. It is the sympathy witheverything that breathes.—Mrs Oliphant. To-day's privileges cannot be enjoyed nor to-day's duties discharged to-morrow. "Tomorrow " may never come. If it does come, it will bring its own privileges and duties — privileges made less and duties made greater by to-day's neglect. Everyone has an ideal of life higher than his actual life reaches. We should all like to be better, nobler, more jus l ; and generous and disinterested than we are. Through selfdiscipline alone can we climb the ladder and appproach this idea. Any human being, however humble or liable to error, may render an essential service to society by making, through a whole lifetime, a steady, uncompromising, dispassionate declaration of his convictions as they are matured.— Harriet Martineau. Where every moment is absorbed in existing business or feverish pleasure l , where no time is afforded for repose of mind and FCircely enough for repose of body, it is no wonder that letters of friendship and good fellowship should be first postponed and finally discontinued. The result of this neglect is always disastrous. No man (says an American writer) has fathomed and measured the dep h and extent of American life wi'h such an angel's rod as Em-rson ; and in this one sentence, " Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power, and of wealth as a moans of power, cu'ture corrects the theory of success," he has summed up jits condition, its dangers, and its refuge.