OTHER MEN'S MINDS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11805, 16 September 1916, Page 8

OTHER MEN'S MINDS.

We console ourselves for not having great talents, as we console ourselves for not bavins great places; we can be above boi-h in our hearts.—Vauvenargues. Tho voice of ce is so del ion t 1 that it is easy to stifle it: but it is alst. so clear that it is impossible to, mistake it.—Mdmc de Stael. If tlie mind of men grew in eorpu'ency at tho same ratio as the body, unnt a world of corpulent wisdom we should have.- 5. Favcnu. 'Mankind (says Sydney Smith') is always happier for having been happy; if vou make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it. 1 should never have made my success 'u fife if I had not bestowed 'upon tile least thing I have ever undertaken the *nmo attention and care that I have bestowed upon tba .greatest.—Dickens. I think we should have been better suited now if we had gone in for Zeppelins eight, or ten years ago, not so much for purposes of aggression or defence, but for purposes of 'maritime and other scouting.—Mr Balfour. There is eloquence in tho tor<iu?l?ss wjnd and a melody in the flowing brooks and the rustling of the reeds beside them, wh'eh by their inconceivable relation to some-thing within th" k son!, awnken tho spirits to a dance of bieathless rapture.—Shelley. To make sonv- nook of God's cre>it'o*i "i little fruitlu'ler, better, more worthy •if God; to make some human hearts ;i little wiser, manfuller, happier—more blessed, less aeeutsedd It is work for a god.—Carlylc*. Tf wo seek for glory, let us learn that the Irehf-u; glory is to forget "■elf. ft in! io surrender life for til? bless. iR':: of others. That is the path by ■ 'del! Christ sought .and found it. •' leaving as an example that tve should follow His steps."—A. Maclaren. It is a great deal easier to do that which Grd gives 'us to do, no matter how hard it is. than to face the responsibility of not. doing it. Wo have abundant 'assurance that we shall receive ail the strength we need to perform nuv dutv God allots to us.—J. !>' Miller. One result of the war has been to hint our .attention from demesne to foreign, affaire. A new period of our history has begun, in which a. democracy hitherto indifferent to external problems, and exceptionally igorant a! out. them, will demand information on these problems, and cannot, wither. great peril to national interests, bo left as uninformed as it is at present. —Professor C- 11. Firth.