IN PASSING.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18203, 2 March 1929, Page 9

IN PASSING.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.—Buskin. The scholar is often a poor teacher.—Dr. Richard Wilson. It’s well to strike when the iron is hot, but better to make the iron hot by striking.—Oliver Cromwell. Let us try to he sensible, let us try to be good-natured; let us try to be fair.—Charles Dickens. One of the real causes of Avar is an exaggerated and perverted patriotism.—Dean Inge. The Hindus, Christians and Mohammedans are all branches of one beautiful tree. —Mr Gandhi. We shall never know precisely how much the war cost. —FieldMarshall Sir William Robertson. Complacency is the one obstacle to progres's in finance, in art, intellect and in things of the spirit.— R. H. Benson. Against bad faith one may guard, but no human sagacity can baffle the unconscious machinations of stupidity.—Disraeli. If the same amount of help were gi\en instead of criticism, many who fail might have succeeded.— W. Stewart Royston. There is a time to speak and a time to forbear speaking, and it’s mostly—if you are a prudent body —the time to forbear speaking!— A. E. Barr. There is nothing accomplished by force that could not be attained by gentleness; the latter takes a longer time, but, oh, the saving of . tears and bitterness. —Archbishop Benson.