Grains of Gold.
MAXIMS OF BILIUS MAXIMUSTreat your friends as you treat your corns. When troublesome cut 'em. Friends are like flies. If you have a bald place they settle on it. A friend in need is a friend to be avoided. He will assuredly want to borrow half-a-crown off you. Never offer to post a letter for a friend, The accidental dropping of a letter may change friend into fiend. Friendship is a ship that takes every opportunity of going into your port.
The dog is called the friend of man. That is because he can t eat man, and man won t eat him. Public esteem is the reward of honest men. —Sir 11. Peel. A Persian philosopher being asked by what method he had acquired so much knowledge, answered, ‘By not being prevented hy shame from asking questions when I was ignorant.’ Let us keep to companions of our own rank. There is no character more contemptible than a man that is a fortune-hunter; and I can see no reason why fortune-hunting women should not be contemptible also.— Goldsmith. Labor ia rest to the loving spirit—congenial work is not toil. Half the ills we hoard in our hearts are ills because we hoard them. We lose the peace ot years when we seek after the rapture of moments. An honest man is believed without an oath ; his reputation swears for him. It is possible for a self-taught man to think and speak too highly of his teacher. Every man has his faults, his failings, peculiarities, ecoentricities. Everyone of us finds himself crossed by such failings of others from hour to hour, nud, if he were to resent them all life would be intolerable. If for every outburst of hasty temper and for every rudeness that wounds us iu our daily path we were to demand an apology, require an explanation, or reseat it by retaliation, daily intercourse would be impossible. The very science of social life consists in that gliding tact avoids contact with the sharp angularities of character, which does not argue about such things, does not seek to adjust or cure them all, but covers them as if it did not see.
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New Zealand Mail, 22 April 1887, Page 7
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