IN PASSING

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18500, 22 February 1930, Page 9 (Supplement)

IN PASSING

Man will not be reasoned out of the feeling of humanity.—Blackstone. We chiefly confess our faults by the sincerity with which we make amends.—La Rochefoucauld. Some Governments are born to deficits, some achieve deficits, and some have deficits thrust upon them.—Sir Herbert Samuel. Most of the tragedies in this world are caused by the actions of people who are neither wholly right nor wholly wrong.—Dean Inge. There is a new drama rising from unplumbed depths to sweep the nice little bourgeois efforts of myself and my contemporaries into the dustbin. —Mr. George Bernard Shaw. I seek no thorns, and I catch the small joys. If the door is low, I stoop. If I can remove the stone out of my way, I do so. If it be too heavy, Igo round it. And thus every day I find something that gladdens me.—Goethe’s Mother. I do not hesitate to say that the road to eminence and power, from an obscure condition, ought not to be made too easy nor a thing too much of course. If rare merit be the rarest of all things, it ought to pass through some sort of probation. The temple of honour ought to be seated on an eminence. If it be open through virtue, let it be remembered, too, that virtue is never tried but by some difficulty and some struggle. —Burke.