THINGS THOUGHTFUL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 14 January 1928, Page 3

THINGS THOUGHTFUL

ECONOMY Economy is a great revenue—£icero. * * * -;:• * DISCRETION Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.' When you doubt., abstain. —Bacon. o** * * SECRETS OF SUCCESS The secret of success is constancy to purpose—Disraeli. PBOGBESS Push on—keep moving.—Thoma3 Morton. CULTUBE Culture is to know the. .best that, has been thought and said in the world. — Matthew Arnold. " KEEP INSTEAD OF CRITICISM If the same amount of help were given instead of criticism, many who fail might have succeeded.—W. Stewart Boyston. WHEN THE IRON IS HOT It's well to strike when the iron is hot, but better to make the iron hot by striking.—Oliver Cromwell. * « * * STUPIDITY Against bad faith one may guard, but no human sagacity can baffle the unconscious machinations of "Stupidity. —Lord Beacousheld. * * * .* A JAPANESE PROVERB It's the melancholy face that gets stung by the bee. TRUTH AND BEAUTY Nothing can bo beautiful which is not true. —Ruskin. * * # # A TIME TO FORBEAR There is a time to speak and a time to forbear speaking, and it's mostly—if you are a prudent body—the time to forbear speaking!—A. E. Barr. *. • * * * A PRICELESS POSSESSION Man has a priceless possession that he should always keep—his own counsel.—W. J. Locke. ■#* * # COMPROMISE Compromise is accepting a little of what you know to be wrong, in order to get a little of what you imagine to be right.—A. S. M. Hutchinson. * * * * A CLEVER WOMAN AND A FOOL The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very_clover woman to- manage a fdol. —Kipling. * # * # COMPLACENCY AN OBSTACLE Complacency is the one obstacle to progress in finance, in art, in intellect and in things of the spirit.—R. H. Benson. * * x- * SENSE AND GOOD NATURE Let us try to be sensible, let us try to be good-natured; let us try to be fair. —Charles Dickens. ■ WHAT EXPERIENCE BRINGS Some experience brings cynicism; some again brings truth. It all depends how you are affected. —W. J. Locke. **• * * FOUNDATIONS NECESSARY If you have built castles in the air, that is where they should bo; now put the foundations under theni.—Thoreau. * # , *t * MAN AND WOMAN Woman lias more art and man has more genius; woman observes and man reasons. —Rousseau. * * * # GENTLENESS BETTER THAN .; FORCE There is nothing accomplished by force that could not be attained by* gentleness; the latter takes a longer time, but, oh, thd saving of tears and bitterness. —Archbishop Benson. **. * * THE SACRAMENT OF BEAUTY Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful. Beauty is God's handiwork —a wayside sacrament. — Charles Kingsley. * # * * THE OBLIGATIONS OF SOCIETY Society is a chain of obligations, and its links must support each other.— Martin Farquhar Tuppen. . . **# * . CHEERFULNESS Cheerfulness is like money well ex? ] pended in charity: the more we dispense of it, the greater is our possession.—Victor Hugo. * .. * * * WISDOM AND SKILL Wisdom is ' knowing what to So nexi; skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.—D S. Jordan. * * * # WORK ON EARTH God will not seek thy race, I\or will He ask thy bir.th: Aloiii He will demand of thee, What hast thou done on earth? —From the Persian. • #.*.* * PROVERBS ABOUT PRIDE Pride goes before a fall. Pride goeth before and shame" goeth after, . Pride is the" sworn enemy to content. Pride, joined with many virtues, chokes them all. Pride may lurk under a threadbare" coat,. Pride often borrows the cloak of humility. Pride and grace dwell never in one place. Pride and poverty are ill met, yet often dine together. * * * •><• PROVERBS ABOUT TRUTH Truths and roses have thorns about them. Truth will sometimes break out uulookcd for. Truth seeks no corners. Truth never grows old. Truth may be blamed but shall not be shamed. Truth lies at the bottom of a well. Truth is truth though spoken by an enemy. Truth is stranger than iiction. Speak truth and shame the devil. Oil and truth will get uppermost at last. * * * # THE REAPING We, the men, kept marching onwards down the Hank of the yellow wall, with knees bent wide, and left arm bowed, and right arm flashing r,teel. . . So like half a wedge of wildfowl, to and fro wo swept the held, and when to either edge we came, sickles wanted whetting, and throats required moistening, aiid backs were in need of easing and every man had mud) to say, and women wanted praising. Then we returned to the other end, with reaping hooks beneath our arms-, and dogs left to mind jackets.— 11. D. Blackrnore.