What they Say:

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20587, 28 November 1936, Page 12 (Supplement)

What they Say:

Readers are Invited to contribute to this column, sayings of notable people of any age, that have impressed them: "AU mankind loves a lover.” "Genius borrows nobly.” “Thought is the property of him who can entertain it.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson. "The true university of these days is a collection of books." "What is done is done.” "Literature is the thought of thinking souls." —Thomas Carlyle. "A clean fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game."—Charles Lamb Contributed by G.G.

"It is very contradictory in human nature that men should love themselves above all the rest of the world, and you never endure to be alone."—Cowley.

"If thou wouldest get a friend, prove him first, and be not hasty to credit him. For some man is a friend for his own occasion, and will not abide in the day of thy trouble." —Ecclesiastes.

Godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.—St. Paul.

I know not any thing more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.—Johnson.

Honour a physician with the honour due unto him, for the uses which ye may have of him: for the Lord hath created him. For of the Most High, cometh healing, and he shall have honour of the king. The skill of the physician shall lift up his head; and in the sight of great men he shall be in admiration. —Ecclesiastes. My thoughts are with the Dead; with them I live in long-past years, Their virtues love, their faults condemn, Partake their hopes and fears, And from their lessons seek and find Instruction with an humble mind. My hopes are with the Dead; anon My place with them will be, And I with them shall travel on Through all Futurity; Yet leaving here a name, I trust, That will not perish in the dust. —Southey. Contributed by JA.