SOME BITS OF THOUGHT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12861, 9 May 1905, Page 3

SOME BITS OF THOUGHT.

The theatre is for the multitude.Mr. Tree.

I am no believer in a " really mad" Hamlet.—H. B. Irving. y.

A man only begins to enjoy life when he is 60.—Richard Croker.

In these modern days no chance is given to the teeth, because everything is cooked for man.Professor Symes Thompson.

Birds are the conquerors of the air, but it is on the ground that we must look for the highest types of life.Professor Denney.

_ Had betting or gambling prevailed among the early Jews there probably would have been 11 instead of 10 Commandments.—J. L. Baton.

We who live in old countries ought to prize all those elements in national and Imperial life which break up uniformity.— John Morley.

If Swinburne has any message it is the supremacy of man—" Glory to man in the highest, for man is the master of things." J. H. Brocklehurst,

To know something fairly accurately, but not too accurately, makes one acceptable in any society. Accuracy must not be pressed too far.—Canon Ainger.

We can hardly study Japanese religion without shame that we have not a higher average of morality than that with which we are so easily contented. —The Bishop of Manchester.

Middle-class parents have been- extremely cruel to their daughters in keeping them safeguarded in the home circle, and not providing for their future, except the hazy future of matrimony.—Miss Ashton.

Modern science, guided by its most subtle and important study,, which is, that of mind, declares neither for Crude Realism nor for Idealism ; but for what we may know as Transfigured Realism.—Dr. Suleeby.'

My hope for the future of the stage, is largely based upon my hope of the development of a " new crowd"' upon a higher plane than the old—a crowd no longer a baby, but an intellectual adult.—A. B. Walkley.

Some men spend hundreds of thousands in giving libraries. If they would give a few of those thousands to a. few of the men who wrote the best books for those libraries, it would be very desirable.—Sir Theodore Martin.

Pitt was one of the few statesmen of bis time who thoroughly grasped the meaning of sea-power, He built up the British Empire by sinking (he French and Spanish Meets, and by that means acquired colony after colony.—Frederic Harrison.

It is a good thing to enable young men and women, after leaving school, before they are caught up by other pursuits and interests, to form a little library of their own. 1 think the aim of getting books of one's own. is stimulating. The sense of ownership gives you a keener interest in literature, and it adds a valuable zest In life.— Sidney Lee.