Grains of Gold.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 786, 25 March 1887, Page 6

Grains of Gold.

AN OLD MOTTO IN NEW DRESSNever, never a day Bhould pass Without some kindness kindly shown ; This is a motto dear laddie and lass, To think upon daily and take for your own. St. Nicholas for February. GOOD AND BAD LUCK. Luck’s the giddiest of all creatures, Nor like 3 in one place for to stay ; She smooths the hair back from your features. Kisses you quick and runs away. Dame 111-luck is in no such flurry, Nor quick her close embrace she quits ; She says she’s in no kind of hurry, And sits upon your bed and knits. —From the German. Associate with the good and you will be one of them. Everyone has a besetting sin to which he returns. —La Fontaine. The terror of being thought poor has been the ruin of thousands. He who lends money to the poor is often better than he who gives alms. The follies of youth become the miseries of old age.—Milwaukee Journal. Truth is impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.—Milton. To have what we want is riches, but to be able to do without it is power.—George Macdonald. Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.—Emerson. 11l habits gather by unseen degrees, As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. —Dry den.