AMONG THE BOOKS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14808, 11 October 1911, Page 10

AMONG THE BOOKS.

National hatreds are always storngest where culture is .lowest. Wilde.

Faith is neither hope nor credulity, but a special state of the soul.Tolstoi.

'Success, which touches nothing that it does not vulgarise,, should be its own reward.—R. B. Cunninghame Graham.

Whoever rightly advocates the cause of some thereby promotes the good of the whole.—John Woolman.

A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.—-Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Men cease to build beautiful churches when they have lost happiness in building shops.—John M. Synge.

Good manners is the art of making every reasonable person in the company easy, and to be easy ourselves.—Swift.

Paradise is a central spot whither the souls of men proceed along different roads; every sect has a road of its own.—Napoleon. - • »,

Of most of our popular novelists it seems to be.the melancholy truth that a whole library of them contains less of joy and sorrow, less of the will to live and of the courage ,to die, less sense of the great issues of human life and of the great stage on which they are decided, than may be gained from a few chapters of their great predecessors.—Times. Almost all our military disasters are due to ourselves, not to the soldier or the regimental officer, or even, as a rule, to the general in command. Time after time we go to war unprepared, and expect our men to do impossible things. They often do them'; but they sometimes fail,' and then we throw the whole blame upon their heads.—(Sir H. Mortimer Durand.

"Though the authority of parents has been distinctly shaken, they can still claim unreasonable immunity from punishment. When the family father spills soup over himself or the table-cloth, mother looks at him but she says nothing. If a parent demands a second helping of tart, it is vouchsafed without unpleasant remarks. If mother breaks anything, the bits are discreetly removed, and instead of ' fretting it' she is offered sympathy. Possibly she may say that she was careless, but nobody else would dare to, not even pa. It makes a young thing long to be a parent, if only to enjoy the blissful immunity from those consequences with which life is so packed,""Talk of the Town," by-Mrs. John Lane*