What they Say:

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21156, 1 October 1938, Page 12

What they Say:

Readers are Invited t contribute ‘o this column, sayings of notable people f any age, that have impressed them.

“Do the duty that lies nearest thee, which thou knowest to be a duty! The second duty will already become clearer.’’—Carlyle.

“In England, the poor want to live like the rich. When they shall want the rich to share their poverty, then there may be some possible danger of a Millenium.’'—Max Beerbohm in “More.'

“Convey thy love to thy friend, as an arrow to the marks, to stick there, not as a ball against the wall, to rebound back to thee: that friendship will not continue to the end, that is begun to an end.” —Francis Quarles.

“I love not to be constrained to love; for love must arise of the heart, and not by no constraint . . . love is free in himself and never will be bounden; for wherfi he is bounden he loseth himself.”—Malory.

“The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it is only to be met with in minds which are naturally noble, or in such as have been cultivated by good examples, or a refined education.”—Addison.

“If the husband be a man with whom you have lived on a friendly footing before marriage—if you did not come in on the wife's side —if you did not sneak into the house in her train, but were an old friend in fast habits of intimacy before their courtship was so much as thought on,—look about you —your tenure is precarious—before a twelve-month shall roll over your head, you shall find your old friend gradually grow cool and altered towards you, and at last seek opportunities of breaking with you”—Charles Lamb.