IN PASSING

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21326, 29 October 1932, Page 9 (Supplement)

IN PASSING

New love is brightest, and long love is greatest; but revived love is the tenderest thing upon earth. —Thomas Hardy. There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.—Sir Francis Drako. There is nothing in this world so fiendish as the conduct of a inean man when he has the power to revenge himself upon a noble one in adversity.—Henry Ward Beecher. What profils how to understand The merits of a spotless shirt— A dapper boot—a little hand--If half the little soul is dirt. —Tennyson. Some people have a, foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind very studiously; for I look upon it that lie who does not mind this will hardly mind anything else.—Dr. Johnson. All affectation proceeds from the supposition of possessing something better than the rest of the world possesses. Nobody is vain of possessing two legs, and two arms, because that is tho precise quantity of either sort of limb which everybody possesses.—Sidney Smith.