Worth Remembering.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 915, 13 September 1889, Page 6

Worth Remembering.

There is no better excess in the world than the excess of gratitude.—La Bruyere. He who thinks himself good for everything is often good for nothing.—Picard. The surest way to please is to forget one’s self and to think only of others.—Moncrieff. Politeness is as natural to delicate natures as perfume is to flowers.—De Finod. Shun idleness ; it is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.—Voltaire. We kuow the value of a fortune when we have gained it and that of a friend when we have lost it.—F. Petit-Senn. If we had no defects we should not take so much pleasure in discovering those of others. —La Rochefoucauld.

It is never the opinions of others that displease us, but the pertinacity they display in obtruding them upon us.—Foubert. Those who seek happiness in ostentation and dissipation are like those who prefer the light of a candle to the splendour of the bud. —Napoleon 1. A homely man of merit ia never repulsive. As soon as he is named his physique is forgotten i the mind passes through it to see the soul. —Romain ville.

A weapon is anything that can serve to wound ; and sentiments are perhapß the most cruel weapons man can employ to wound his fellow-man. —Balzac.

Nothing sharpens the arrow of sarcasm so keenly as the courtesy that polishes it. No reproach is like that we clothe with a smile and present with a bow.—Chestei field. Thinkers are as scarce as gold, but he whose thoughts embrace all his subjects, who pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a diamond of enormous size. —Lavater.