THINGS THOUGHTFUL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 31 May 1930, Page 13

THINGS THOUGHTFUL

GOOD A OVICM Let us hearken unto good advice, and something may be done for us Franklin. • • * • OUR, FAULTS The first fault is the child of simplicity; but every other the offspring of guilt.—Goldsmith. GREATEST OF FAULTS The greatest of nil faults, I should sa-vi '* to be conscious of none. —Carlylc • # # # FAITH Faith is the bird that feels the light, and, sings while the dawn is still dark. —Tagorp. » * » • ( YOU AND YOUR AUDIENCE In conversation always think of your audience. It takes two to make a truth'.—Zangwill. THE GREATEST EVILS A discontented mind, and a diseased body are, beyond comparison,' the two greatest evils in this, world.—Tillotson. ° ■ ■ • » • • ■i WHEN VIRTUE'S DONE Like dew upon the grass, when pleasure's sun Shines on your virtues, all your virtue's done. —Marston. ' • •';■■/',-;• • "RESPECTABLE SELFISHNESS" ' No indulgence or passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.—George Mncdonald. * •.• • • OUR FEARFUL FANCIES It is not our beliefs that frighten us half so much as our fancies.—Oliver Wendell Holmes. '» •*» i • ADVISERS WE DISLIKE Advice, is hot disliked because it is advice but because so few people knowhow to give it.'—Leigh Hunt. • - . *' ■ # » » / MAX THE BORROWER , Of all the created comforts God is the lender: you.are the borrower, not the owner.—Rutherford. •». * » LIFE AND ACTION To live we need but a short life; but to act we need a long one.—Joubert. •;# * * ADVERSITY Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity there are a hundred that will stand adversity.—Carlyle.

"SAY IT WITH FLOWERS" Flowers and fruit arc always fit presents—flowers,, because' they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all tire utilities of man.— Emerson. * #■♦..■■• / INFASHION WITH SELF. It is only a great mind or a strong character that knows bow to respect its own provincialism, and can dare to be in fashion with itself.—Jas. Russell Lowell. • » « • ' TIME'S REVELATIONS It is curious to note the old seamargins of human thought! Eaeh subsiding century reveals some new mystery. We build where monsters used to hide themselves.—Longfellow.' * ♦ . '• * ■ MERCY Merey is like a rainbow: we must never look for it after night; it shines not in the other world; if wo refuse mercy here, we must leave justice to eternity.—S. Squire. ' , ' : ■ ■ ' .'• ..* .*, * WHEN BIG STUMBLING-BLOCKS ARE ABSENT .., Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in ■the way. For want of a, block he'will stumble ■ at-a straw.-r-Swift. .*# * * ' FEASTING AND FASTING • One half of mankind pass their lives in thinking how they shall get a dinner, and the other in thinking -what dinner 'they shall get; and the first are much less injured by occasional fasts than are the latter by constant feasts-. —Horace Smith. # * • * HOME! Home! How deep a spell that little word contains! It is the circle in which our purest, best affections move and concentrato themselves; the hive in which, like the industrious bee, youth garners tho sweets and memories of life, for age to 'meditate and feed upon! It is childhood's , temple! and manhood's shrine—the ark of tho past and future.—Uhlahd. ,-, * * # * AN OLD-FASHIONED LOVE SONG When absent from.her whom my soul holds most dear. What a medley of passions invade! In this bosom what anguish, what hope, and what fear I endure for iny beautiful maid! In vain I seek pleasure to lighten my grief, « Or quit the gay throng for the shade; Nor retirement nor solitude yield me relief When away from my beautiful maid. (About 1840).

THE WORSHIP OF WEALTH This golden image, high by measureless cubits, set up where your green fields of England are furnace-burnt into the likeness of the plain of Dura; this idol, forbidden to us, first of all idols, by our own Master and faith; forbidden to us also by every human lip that has ever, in any age or people, been accounted of as able to speak according to the purposes of God. Continue to make that forbidden duty your principal one, and soon no more art, no more science, no more pleasure, will be possible. Catastrophe will come, or, worse than catastrophe, slow mouldering and withering into Hades. But if you can fix some conception of a true human state of life, to be striven for — life for all men as for yourselves—if you can determine sonic honest and simple order of existence, following those trodden ways of wisdom which are pleasantness, and seeking her quiet and withdrawn paths, which are peace ■ —then, and so sanctifying wealth into the. "commonwealth," all your art, your literature, y r our daily labours, your domestic affection and citizen's duty. will join and increase into one magnificent harmony. You will know then how to build well enough; you will build with stone well, but with fiesh better, temples not made with hands, but rivetted with hearts, and that kind of marble, crimson-veined, is indeed eternal.—Buskin.