Selections.

Southern Cross, Volume 3, Issue 4, 27 April 1895, Page 11

Selections.

Censure is the tax a man payeth to the public for being eminent. He loved the good and wise, but found His human heart to all akin Who met him on the common ground Of suffering and of sin. He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule is truly great, and shall laugh, in the end with truer mirth than ever he was laughed at. Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it, and sets it light. In some people arrogance takes the place of greatness of mind ; want of humanity is in the room of firmness of character, and low cunning of understanding.—La Bruyere. Nothing is so fierce but love will soften nothing so sharp-sighted in other matters but it will throw a mist before its eyes. Weignorant of ourselves, Begs often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good; so find we profit, By losing of our prayers. Antony and Cleopatra, ii, 1Once let a grand motive-power sway a number of men, and, however differently they may he employed there is a bond of anion which binds them one to another. It is a ‘ touch of nature which makes the whole world kin/ Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well. —Shakspeare. Let a man do his work; the fruit of it is the care of another than he.. — Carlyle. Make few promises. Religiously observe even the smallest promise. A. man who means to keep them cannot afford to make many. To do what seems right may involve an extra struggle sometimes, but one may be sure that in the long run it will bring the most happiness. The devil tempts us not —’tis we tempt him. Beckoning his skill with opportunity. —George Eliot. If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning, etc., beginning from his youth, and so go on to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last. A man doesn’t generally get a bad reputation without deserving it, but it sticks to him after he has ceased to deserve it.

Taste, if it means anything bat a, paltry connoisseurship, must mean general susceptibility to truth and nobleness, a sense to discern and a heart to love and reverence all beauty, order, goodness wheresoever, or in whatsoever forms and accomplishments they are to be seen.