THINGS THOUGHTFUL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 7 April 1934, Page 10

THINGS THOUGHTFUL

CIVILITY THE ,SECRET OF SUCCESS When a. rich Quaker was asked the secret of his success in life he answered, “Civility, friend, civility.” Some people are uncivil, sour, sullen, morose, crabbed, crusty, haughty, really clownish, and impudent. Run from such, as for your life. “Scest thou a mail wise in his own conceitV There is more hope of a fool than of him.” CAUTION' AGAINST CARELESS- . NESS Reware of carelessness; no fortune will stand it long: you are on the high road to ruin the moment you think yourself rich enough to lie careless.— Sydney Smith. # * # • “INFERIORS" This is a term which we are ready to apply to those beneath us in station, without considering whether it he applicable in any other sense. Many of them may he our equals; and others may he our nominal inferiors, to whom we are by no means equal. *'# # # HEALTH UN HER V A Llt El > Such is the power of health, that without its co-operation every other 'comfort is torpid and lifeless as (he power of vegetation without the sun. And vet Ibis bliss is commonly thrown away in thoughtless negligence, or in foolish experiments on our own strength; we let it perish without remembering its value, or waste it to show how much we have to spare; it is sometimes given up to the management of levity and chance, and sometimes sold for the applause of jollity and debauchery. *‘* * • MAN, KNOW THYSELF! Hy discovering his prevailing deficiencies, and ordering his life and habits so ns to counteract them, a man may exercise that true self-control which is alone worthy of the name. No wiser or more valuable lesson can be learned in the whole system of education than thus to know self and to minister to its deepest needs. * « * « HERE, NOW! Paradise is still upon earth, and only because of our self-thinking and self-willing do we not see and hear God.—Jacob Roelirnc •»' • • WAKING THOUGHTS Sleep to waken again, to new struggles. wrestlings aw) achievements.— M. Hillie. « * * # HUSBAND AND WIFE Husband and wife should be like two candles burning together, which make the house more lightsome; or like two fragrant flowers bound up in one nosegay, that augment its sweetness; or like two woll-tuned instruments, which, sounding together, make the more melodious music. Husband and wife, what are they but as two springs meeting, and so joining their streams that they make but one current?—W. Seeker. * * # # SOCIAL ETIQUETTE We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette. It is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in man, and coquetry in woman.—Robert Adam. # # * * NO SUCH THING AS TIME There is not such a thing as time —it is but space occupied by incident. It is the same to eternity as matter is fo infinite space—a portion out of the immense - occupied hv something within the sphere of mortal sense.— Leigh Richmond. *#' # • BROADER THAN MAN’S MTND There is no place where earth’s sorrows Are more felt than up in heaven; There is no place where earth’s failings Have such kindly judgment given. For the love of God i? broader Than the measure of man’s mind; And the heart of the Eternal Is most wonderfully kind. —F. W. Faber. * • # * SINCERE ANb LOVING SOUL There is power in the direct glance, of a sincere and loving human soul, which will do more fo dissipate prejudice and kindle charity, than the most elaborate arguments.—George Eliot. * # * * CORNER-STONE OF ALL VIRTUES Nothing unites people like companionship in intellectual enjoyment. It does more—it gives them mutual respect, mid to each among them selfrespect—that corner-stone of all virtue. It furnishes to each the masterkey hy which lie may avail himself of his privilege as an intellectual, being, to Enter the sacred temple of his breast, And gaze and wander there a ravished guest, Wander through all' the glories of his mind, Gaze upon all the treasures he shall find. And while thus leading him to look within his own boftoin for the ultipiate sources of his happiness, warns him ;it the same time to be cautious how lie defiles and desecrates that inward and most, glorious of temples.—St. John Hei'schel, * * • • WHAT, INDEED? We must strive against peevishness while we are young, or else what will become of us when we are old?—C. Buck. * # * « OUR ANGELS There arc two angels that attend unseen Each one of us, and in great hooks record Our good and evil deeds. He who writes down ’1 lie good ones, after every action doses His volume, and ascends with it to God. I lie other keeps his dreadful day-book open Till sunset, that we may repent; which doing, The record of the action fades away. And leaves a line of white across the page. Now if hi y act lie good, as I believe it, H cannot he recalled, ft is already Sealed up in heaven, as a good deed accomplished. 1 lie rest is yours.—Longfellow.

COMPANION A IIRACISFUL EMOTION Compassion is an emotion of vvliieh :wc « ::phl never to tie ashamed. Uriiec* fnl. partieulkfly in youth, is (lie tear of sympathy, aiid the heart that melts at tlie tale of woe; we should not permit ease and indulgence to contract our affections, and wrap us up in a selfish enjoyment, lint, we should neicustorh ourselves to think of tlie_ distresses; 6f hiininti lif.e, Of the solitary

cottage, the dying parent, and the weeping orphan. Nor ought we ever to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even tlie meanest insect with wanton cruelty.— Dr. Blair.

OPINION QF THE MOB Look, as I blow this feather from my

face, And us the air blows it to me again, Obeying with my wind when I do blow, And yielding to another w.lien it blows, Commanded always by the greater gust; •Such is the lightness of your common men.—Shakespeare.