AMONG THE BOOKS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13522, 21 August 1907, Page 9

AMONG THE BOOKS.

I'Kh.n dick is the reason of fools. —Voltaire. Discretion in conduct and speech is more than eloquence.- - Bacon. Truly living people are always in some way beautiful.—Mona Cahd. To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.—Johnson. Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it. —Disraeli. Curiosity has destroyed more women than love.--Madame de Pinzieux. True knowledge consists in knowing things, nut wends. - Lady Montagu. Industry pays debts, while despair in creaseth them.'—Benjamin Franklin. The good in man may be known oy the good he sees in men. -Rev. Dr. McLaren. Them as ha' never had a cushion don't miss it.—" Mrs. Poyser," in "Adam Bedc." Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no mote. —Cowper. Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action. We cannot learn men from books.—Disraeli. Those things that a man cannot amend in himself or in others he ought to surfer patiently until God orders things otherwise.—Thomas a Kempis. Better to try all things and find all emptv than to try nothing and leave your life a blank. to do this is to commit the sin of him who buried his talent in a despicable sluggard.—Charlotte Bronte. A hapny man or woman is a better thing to find than a£s note. He or she. is a radiating focus of good-will : and thenentrance into a room is as though another candle had been lit.-- H. L. Stevenson. What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I I know" of no objects of love that give such I substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden.—Author of " Elizabeth and Her German Garden." Where true fortitude dwells, loyalty, 1 bounty, friendship, and fidelity may be ! found". A man may confide in persons constituted for noble ends, who dare do and suffer, and who have a hand to burn for their country and their friend. Small J and creeping things are the product ot I petty souls.—Sir Thomas Browne.

Shakespere is the only biographer id j Shakespere : . . . with ShaUes|>ere [or I biographer, instead of Aubrey aid Row;. . \ve'~have teallv the information which is ; „ i; ,terial. . .' . We have his record.•<! , convictions mi those qivsthms wb'ub knock , at every heart. . . . What trait of his private'mind has he hidden in his dramas': . . . So far from Shakespere's being the least known, he is the one person in all modern history known to us.—Emerson.