Pearls of Thought:

Timaru Herald, Volume CXL, Issue 20261, 9 November 1935, Page 12

Pearls of Thought:

Readers are Invited to contribute gratituitously under the heading brief 1 extracts of striking expressions of thought that appeal to them in the course of their reading; such as: The man that blushes is not quite a brute.—Charles Young in "Night Thoughts." What is courage? Is it first —not being afraid? No, it is sticking it when you are afraid; that is courage.— Will Grant in "Pentland Days and Country Ways." In my own opinion, and in the opinion of many men more competent to judge, one of the great evils of modern thought is the decay of belief in the powers of evil.-—Frances Brett Young, in "Cold Harbour." Democracy, by laying it down that there is but one class for all men, has in fact done a wrong to everything that is not first-rate. —Henri Frederic Amiel, in "Journal Intime.” It is not to be forgotten but what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify oiir instincts.—“ The Life and Letters of Professor Huxley." The optimist is a better reformer than the pessimist; and the man who believes life to be excellent is the man who alters it most. — G. K. Chesterton, in “Charles Dickens .” Wisdom is reason saturated with irrational knowledge and with sioredup experience, continually adapted to the moving waters of life, inseparable from action. Which it guides and fertilises, and so reasonable that it knows whenever necessary'' how to sacrifice reason.—Salvador de Madariaga, in “Englishmen, Frenchmen, and Spaniards." •:*