RANDOM THOUGHTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18275, 16 December 1922, Page 4 (Supplement)

RANDOM THOUGHTS.

I was never much displeased with those harmless delusions that tend to make us happy.—Goldsmith. At twenty years of age the will reigns, at thirty the wit, and at forty the judgment.—Grattan.

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting falsehood.

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.—Anthony Hope. "I'm proof against that word 'failure.' I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best."—George Eliot.

A woman's mind is a never-ending struggle between reason, pride, and instinct. Where her reasoning powers are weak, pride comes to their aid, but if pride deserts her she is the prey of dispair. "It's poor work allays settin* the dead above the livin'. We" shall all of us be dead some time, I reckon—it 'ud be better if folks 'ud make much on us beforehand, instid o' beginning when we're gone. It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crop.—George Eliot,

Wisdom will never let us stand with any man or men on an unfriendly footing. We refuse _ sympathy and intimacy with people as if wo waited for some better sympathy or intimacy to come. But whence? And when? "To-morrow will bo like to-day. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live.—Emerson.