Words of Wisdom.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 810, 9 September 1887, Page 6

Words of Wisdom.

It is better to take care of one’s health than one’s malady. A blush announces the departure as well as the arrival of shame. A small stock of health has its compensations, like a small fortune. Men are people who make rules ; women are people who make exceptions. —DisraeliKind words prevent a good deal of that perverseness which rough hnd imperious usage often produces in generous minds. Locke. The best man is he who most tries to- perfeet himself, and the happiest man is he who most feels that he is perfecting himself.— Socrates. Good temper, like a sunny day, sheds a brightness over . everything. It is the sweetener of toil and the soother of disquietude.—lrving. . If people would give to the oare of their own health one- tenth of the time they devote uselessly to that of others, everyone woulu feel much hatter.

It is a shame for a rich Christian man to be like a Christmns-box that receives all, and nothing can be got out of it till it is broken, in pieces.—Dr. John Hall.' The main token of a strong character isnot to make known every change and phase ip thought and feeling, but to give the world, the finished results.—Auerbach. Nobody wants ornaments in this world,, but everybody wanta integrity. All the fair devices that ever were fancied are not worth a lie. Leave your walls as bare as a planed board, or build them of baked mud and chopped straw if need be,- but do not roughcast them with falsehood.