Worth Remembering.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 878, 28 December 1888, Page 7

Worth Remembering.

There is not a moment without some duty. —Cicero.

Beauty without grace is a hook without bait.—Talleyrand. Of all thieves fools are the worst ; they rob you of time and patience.—Goethe. Industry has annexed thereto the fairest fruits and the richest rewards.—Barrow. The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.—Bishop Jacques B. Bossuet. Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity. —Lavater. The injury of prodigality leads to this, that ho who will not economise will have to agonise.—Confucius. • The best way to get along with pooplo who are 1 set up with pride ’ is to upset their prid9, and them, too. Public reformers bad needs practice on their own hearts that which they propose to try on others.: —King Charles I. Labour is the law of the wo Id, and he who lives by other men’s means ia of less value to the world than the buzzing, busy insect.

In seeking a situation, remember that the right kind of men are always in demand, and that industry and capacity rarely go empty-handed. Fear and awe are only weak chains to secure love ; when these fetters are broken, a man who forgets to fear will begin to show the effects of his hatred,—Tacitus. Fear plunge 3 the system into that state of debility whioh predisposes it to fatal impressions, while the moral force of confidence enables It to repel contagion.—J, W. Dawson. I have sometimes thought that we cannot know any man thoroughly well while he is in perfect health. As tho ebb tide disolosea the real lines of the shore and the bed of the

sea, so feebleness, sickness and pain bring out tho real character of a man.—Garfield.