What they Say:

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21126, 27 August 1938, Page 12

What they Say:

Readers are Invited to contribute to ti.ts column, savings of notable people it any age. that have impressed them. "Difficulty is, for the most part, the laughter of idleness.” —Dr Johnson. ‘‘No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.”—Blake. ‘‘Nothing of beauty dies without having a painful something.” Master Link. ‘‘Never love unless you can Bear with all the faults of man.” —Thomas Campion. ‘‘We shall all be swallowed up one day, every one of us, and we know it: the wisest thing is to forget about it.'’ —Anatole France. ‘‘Nature, and nature’s laws, lay hid in night: God said, “Let Newton be!” and all was light.” —Pope. ‘‘Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.”—John Stuart Mill. “The waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence which will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.”—MCholmondeley. “It needs twenty years to lead man from the plant state in which he is within his mother's womb, and the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of the reason begins to appear. .It has needed thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.”—Voltaire.