Worth Remembering.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 838, 23 March 1888, Page 7

Worth Remembering.

Wisdom speaks little—but the little, well. Shameless craving must have shameless refusing. He that would enjoy the fruit must not gather the flower. Physic, for the most part, is but a substitute for temperance. Drunkenness turns a man out of himself, and leaves a beast in his room.

He who never changes any of his opinions never correots any of his mistakes. The craft of the merchant is the bringing a thing from where it abounds to where it is costly. —Emerson He who thinks too much of himself will be in danger of being forgotten by the rest of the world.

Health, beauty, vigor, riches, and all other things thought good operate equally as evils to the vicious as they do as benefits to the just. There is more fatigue in laziness than in labor.

Those who suspect all are much to be suspected. He that licks honey from thorns pays too dear for it.

A pot that belongs to many is ill-stirred and worse boiled.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.—George Eliot. Of all the duties, the love of truth, with faith and constancy in it, ranks first and highest. You cannot dream yourself into a character ; you must hammer and forge yourself into one.

Everything that gives U 3 liberty without giving us command over ourselves is destructive.

Endeavor to be honestly rich or contentedly poor ; but be sure that your riches be justly got, or you will spoil all. Character is property. It is the noblest of possessions. It is an estate in the general good-will and respect of men.