WITH MASTER MINDS

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1666, 3 February 1904, Page 58

WITH MASTER MINDS

It is foolish to strive with what we cannot avoid.

-All’s well that ends the way you want to have it.

A weak mind is like a microscope'—it magnifies trifling things.

Beware of the vice that goes around wearing the mask of virtue.

Success only knocks omoo at the door but adversity will pound all day.

Many a man by being thought better than himself has become better.

Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire of appearing so.

Ain extrao-rdinry haste to discharge an obligation is a sort of ingratitude.

If a man be endued with a generous) mind, that is the best kind of nobility.

To be humble to superiors is duty, to equalsis courtesy, to inferiors is nobleness, and to all safety.

He that spareth in •everything is an inexcusable niggard; he that spareth in nothing is an inexcusable madman.

There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to Cay usi out flat some time or other.—Cer'vantes.

Nine times out of ton the woman who is worth her weight in gold marries a man who is noit worth his weight in scrap iron.

God’s balances weigh -every individual at the times when- he feels independent of God, as well as when lie feels dependent upon the Divine mercy.

Misunderstanding and inattention create more uneasiness in the world than deception and artifice ; or, at least, their consequences are more universal.

It must be. borne in mind that our intellectual as well as our moral nature is ever liable to be powerfully affected by habits previously formed.—iW. E. Gladstone.

The enemy is more easily repulsed if we never suffer him do get within usf„ but, upon the very first approach, draw up our forces and fight him without the gate.—Thomas a Kempis.. • , •

If thou canst wipe away the tears, or cause a smile to brighten the soul of a sorrow-laden brother, or canst lead him to the adoration of the good and beautiful, thou shaft have more real enjoyment and- happiness than all the pileicusures and joys the world can give you.