THINGS THOUGHTFUL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 4 February 1928, Page 10

THINGS THOUGHTFUL

VIRTUE Virtue is a habit of choice.—Aristotle. * * * * SUCCESS Success is the product of three things—talent, work and luck.—Valtonr. *** # • THE SECOND-RATE The second-rate is excellent—for the second-rate. —Joubert. * * * # FAITH It is faith and not lack of it that asks questions. —Rev. H. R. L. Sheppard. . WHAT EXPERIENCE TEACHES By experience We find a short way by a long wandering.—Aschani. ..* * # * FRICTION CAUSED BY TONE Ninety per cent, of all daily friction is caused by tone—mere tone of voice.— Arnold Bennett. * * * * A CHEAP KINDNESS Consider how cheap a kindness it is not to speak ill; it only requires silence. —Tillotson. * * * * NOTHING NOBEE WITHOUT SELFDENIAL There never did; or never will, exist anything permanently noble or excellent in a character which was a stranger to the exercise of self-denial.— Scott. * * * * RICHES Riches consist in having enough money to pay for the kind of amusements you enjoy, and in having enough temperament to enjoy the amusement you can pay for.—J. Gordon. THINK BEFORE SPEAKING Yes and No are very easily said, but before they are said it is necessary to think for a. long time.—Confucius. # * * * THE HEART OF MAN The fish dwell in. the depths of the waters, and the eagles in the sides of heaven; the one, though high, may be reached with an arrow, and the other, though deep, with a hook; but the heart of a man at a foot’s distance cannot be known. —A Burmese Saying. * * * * THE COMFORT OF A DOG The man,or woman who, in time of awful strain, lias never known the solace of a dog. has missed a great tiling in life. —-W. J. Locke. * * * * EACH DAY a LITTLE LIFE Each day is a little life, every waking and uprising a little birth, every fresh morning a, little youth, and every going to rest and sleep a little death.— Schopenhauer. # # m ONE MORE EFFORT When people have made what they call their last effort they should always make just one effort more.—Katherine Cecil Thurston. * * * * LOVE AND HOPE To love is the great'- amulet that makes this world a garden, and “Hope which comes to all” outwears the accidents of life, and stretches with tremulous hands beyond tho grave and death. —Robert Louis Stevenson. » * * # LITTLENESS OF SPIRIT It is not so often tlie greatness of our own trouble as the littleness of our own spirit that makes us complain.—Jeremy Tavlor. ' * * * * WHEN LITTLE KNOWLEDGE IS ' GOOD It is better not to know so much tha,n to know many things that are not so.— Thomas Fuller. **' * * ENGLISHMEN’S MODESTY When an Englishman does a good action he is generally more ashamed of it than of a bad one.—Brosser. * * * * PROVERBS ABOUT CONSCIENCE A' good conscience is a soft pillow. A guilty conscience needs no accuser. Conscience cannot be compelled, rt good conscience Is a continual feast. He that lias no conscience has nothing. A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. THE FALLEN They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old,

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn, At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.—Laurence. * * * * THE PRAYER OF CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Open wide the window of our spirits and fill us full of light. Open wide the door of our hearts, that we nmv receive and entertain Thee with all our powers of adoration and love. L ¥■**¥■ WHEN ONE’S HOME IS HAPPY We must all have trials and vexations, but if one’s Home is happv. the rest is comparatively nothing.—Queen Victoria. * * * * TALK HAPPINESS Talk happiness. ' The world is sad enough Without your woe. No path is wholly rough ; Look for the places that are smooth nnrl clear, And speak of them to rest the weary ear Of earth, so hurt by one continuous strain Of mortal discontent and grief and pain. - -Ella Wheeler Wilcox. * * x * WINTER, The earth lies fast, asleep, grown tired Of all that’s high or deep. There's naught, desired and naught required Save a sleep. I rock the cradle of the earth, I lull her with a sigh, And' know that she will wake to mirth Bv and bv.—Christina Rossetti. * * * * PROVERBS ABOUT SILENCE Silence is golden. S'Tence gives consent. No wisdom like silence. Silence seldom doth harm. Unreason able silence is folly. Silence is wisdom and gets friends. If a- word ho worth a shekel silence is worth two.