OTHER MEN'S MINDS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11505, 29 September 1915, Page 4

OTHER MEN'S MINDS.

I should like to Bee a new conception of nobility, based on real superiority, and not on coats of arms or broad acres.—Dr Inge. What is there in it? Millions upon millions of souls have been made happy while millions upon millions have been plunged into misery and despair by kissing. Go where you will, to what country you will, you are perfectly sure to find kissing.—Oockton. If men wish to be held in esteem they must associate with those only who are estimable.—La Bruyero. Self-denial is a virtue of the highest Duality, and he who has it not, and oes not strive to acquire it, will never excel in anything.—Conybeare. Thrift is not an easy virtue, but it is one of the most civilising virtues.— Lord Mayor of Liverpool. I can assure you that some of the "old maids" of London are some of the most loving, gracious and useful people in it.—Bishop of London. Tho slaughter of a noble life is a gradual process.—J. Q- A. Henry. Only characters in fiction have no saving qualities. You never heard of anvbody in real life being entirely bad. —R. W. Chambers. A good principle gets more "hard knocks than a x> 001 * one ' —Professor Harris Bickford. Any wasted opportunity is a sad fact to reflect on, but the lost opportunity of a wasted life is too ugly a reality to have forced upon one.—Father Ignatius. Happiness comes far more from within than from without.—J. Freeman Clarke. Men remain in business after they have made fortunes because they have forgotten how to do anything else.— B. B. Price. What conquest was ever worth the useful lives lost to accomplish it?—T. Kirk. Some people are rusty. Their harsh, ungainly manners eat out whatever is good in their own character.—Rev W. Arnot. Some folks live together fifty years, thinking they know each other well; yet descend to their graves—still strangers.—Richard Marsh. The man who, on discovering his errors, acknowledges and corrects them, is scarcely less entitled to our esteem than if he had not erred.—Pre Smith. Somo men will believe nothing but what they can comprehend; and there are but tew things that such are able to comprehend.—St Evremond. Ho that spa-roth in everything is an inexcusable niggard. He that spareth in nothing is an inexcusable madman.— Lord Halifas. No gentleman ever scoffs at the belief of anyone.—Montgomery. We should choose our friends thoughtfully, wisely, prayerfully; but when wo have pledged our lives we should bo faithful whatever the cost tnav bo.— J. R. Miller. There are few difficulties that hold out against real attacks; they fly, like the visible horizon, before those who advance. —S ha rp.