Worth Remembering.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 839, 30 March 1888, Page 6

Worth Remembering.

He who would catch fish must not mind a wetting. A thousand probabilities may not make one truth.

To think kindly is well, to speak kindly is better, to act kindly is best. Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.—Jeremy Taylor.

-Respect is better procured by deserving it than by exacting it. We are not- responsible for tho measure of ability we possess, but for the good use of what we have.

It is well to be sanguine and full of anticipation ; we are better off for our hopes even if they are" never realised. The labor of the body frees us from the pains of the mind.—Roohefoucault. A good name is easily lost; but it is difficult to lose a bad one. A good character ia not to be picked up in a day. There is some help for all tho defects of fortune, for if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy of cuttfog them shorter. He that will believe only what he can fully understand must have a very long head or a very short creed.

The great successes of the world have been affairs of a second, a third, a fiftieth trial, **s Johq Mqrley ?

A genius for hard work ia the beat kind of genius.—Mra Stowe. I am glad when I ace anyone avoid the infamy of a vice ; but to shun the vice itself were better.—Ben Johnson.

Be not too eager in the arduous chase ; Who pants for triumph seldom wins the race, —Crabbe.

The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage.—Joseph Roux.