SCRAPS.

Western Star, Issue 1339, 23 March 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)

SCRAPS.

Forgive freely; hatred is a troublesome companion.

The things that are really for thee gravitate to thee.—Emerson.

Oolton says:—That which, we acquire with most difficulty we retain the longest. Time divided is never long, and regularity abridges all things.—Madame de Stael. Young men soon give and soon forget affronts, old age is slow at both.—Byron.

For the sake of one pood action a hundred evil ones should be forgotten.—Ohinose Proverb.

Do good and throw it into the sea—if the fish does not know it, God does, —Turkish Sayings.

When old men are not upright they teach their sons and grandsons to be rogues.— Chinese Proverb.

There is not in nature a thing that make a man so deformed, so beastly, as iutemperat 6 anger.—John *

Fiction is most powerful.when it contains most truth, and there isilittlo fiction we get so true as that which we action.—F. G.Holland. ''" . .] ■■■

The path of duty is near, yet people seek it afar off. Tho way is wide ; it is not hard to find. Go home and seek it, and you will not lack teajhere.—Meneius. ■

A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another man than this —that, when the injury began on his part, the kindness should begin on ours.—Tillotson,

There are now some 4203 species of flowers which are cultivated in Europe, and it is a matter of some surprise, as well as regret, that only 420, exactly 10 per cent, are odorous.

The looking-glass may say what it pleaaes. The heart of friends is the mirror of good men. And in that glass we shall be beautiful enough if we are good enough.—H. W. Beeoher.

The ideal charity is that rare and large thing which is at ease, and is at work up and down and around itself. It is, in fact, an atmosphere rather than an- avenue. —E. S. Phelps. , _.. ....-^S