IN PASSING

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21296, 24 September 1932, Page 9 (Supplement)

IN PASSING

He that goes a borrowing goes a. Borrowing.—Dr. Irankliri. The iron chain and the silken cord, both equally are bonds. —Schiller. The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.— Hazlitt.

The great question is not so much what money you have in your pocket, as what you will buy with it. Ruskin. Tf my own assets are slender I bring with me seven stronger ones, my wife and my six small sons. —Bishop of Chester.

It, is diificult for a woman ever to try to be anything fiood when she is not believed in—when it is always supposed that she must be contemptible.—George Eliot. Few characters can bear tho microscopic scrutiny of wit quickened by anger; and pprhaps tho best advico to authors would be that they should keep out of tho way of ono another. —Dr. Johnson.

Though a man has all other perfections and wants discretion, he will be of 110 great consequence in the world; but if he has "this singlo talent in perfection, and but a common share of others, ho may do what he pleases in his particular station of life.—Addison.

The men whom I have seen succeed best in lifo have always been cheerful and hopeful men, who went about their business with a smile on their faces, and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men, facing rough and smooth alike as it came— Kingsley-