SCINTILLATIONS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XVI, Issue 135, 11 June 1881, Page 2

SCINTILLATIONS.

"Be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams : the more they are condensed the deeper they burn."— Soothey. Of all sights which can soften and humanise the heart of man, there is none that ought so surely to reach it as that of innocent children enjoying the happiness which is their proper portion. — Soothet. A Persian philosopher, being asked by what method he acquired so much knowledge, answered : "By not being prevented by shame from asking questions when I was ignorant." . . . . . How the world wags ; 'Tis but an hour since it. was nine ; And after one hour more 'twill be eleven ; And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot and rot, And thereby hangs a tale. — As "Soxj Like It. When the purse is empty and the kit chen cold, then is the voice of flattery no longer heard. There is no connection between poverty and discourtesy, which latter originates m dulness alone. Courtesy is the due of man to man, not of suit of clothes to suit of clothes. — Cablyle. To thine one self be true, And it must follow, as thhe night the day, ' Thou canst not then be false to any man. — Hamlet. The seeds of repentance are sown m youth by pleasure, but the harvest va reaped m age by pain. — Coltok. With the opinion that man is the creature of circumstances I should as soon agree as with the other, that an acorn might, by favorable or unfavorable influences of soil or climate, be nurtured into a cabbage or the cabbage seed into an oak. — Carlyle. He that would win the race must guide the horse, Obedient to the customs of the course ; Else, though unequal to the goal he flies, A meaner than himself shall gain the prize. — Cowpeb. Bees will not work except m darkness, thought will not work except m silence, neither will virtue work except m silence. Let not thy right hand know what thy left hand doeth.— Caklyle.