OTHER MEN'S MINDS.

Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 16174, 27 December 1924, Page 15 (Supplement)

OTHER MEN'S MINDS.

<SO OD HEALTH. For life is not to ljvo, but to be well. —Martial. * • ■■»■.'■'•-.■•• A NOBLE HEART. A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenanoe in its lowest estate.—Sir Philip Sidney. « * co DANGER OP FLATTERY. Flattery is an ensnaring quality and leaves a very dangerous impression. It swells a man's imagination, entertains his vanity and drives him to a doting upon his own person.—Jeremy Collier. » * * • FLATTER ALL, PLEASE NONE. Nothing is so great an instanc.e of ill-manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; if you flatter only one or two, you affront the rest.—Swift. a * « a IN PRAISE OF FLOWERS. Lovely flowers are the smiles of God's goodness.—Wilberforce. * » * • DEFINITION OF FOLLY. Folly consists in the drawing of false conclusions from just principles by which it is distinguished from madness, which draws just conclusions from false principles.—Locke. • *■»•» The GREATEST OF FOOLS. The greatest of fools is he who imposes on himself, and in his greatest concern thinks certainly he knows that which he has least studied, and of which he is most profoundly ignorant. —Shaftesbury. * * • « FAMILIARITY. If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore: and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God* which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile. —Emerson. » * * * LETTER-WRITING. Let no man despise the epistolary art. It is said to be extinct. I doubt it. Good letters were always scarce. ■lt does not follow that because our grandmothers wrote long letters they all wrote good ones, or that nobody nowadays writes good letters because most people write bad ones.—Augustine Birrell.

CUNNING WHO PASS FOR WISE. It is an unfortunate thing for the public that the cunning pass for wise —that those whom Bacon compares to "a house with convenient stairs and entry, but never a fair room," should be the men who, accordingly, are the most likely to rise to high office. The art of gaining power, and that of using it well, are too often found in different persons.—Whateley.

AT THE MERCY OF THE WIND. We are like thistle-down blown about by the wind—up and down, here and there—but not one in a thousand ever getting beyond seedhood.—Samuel Butler. » » * * CONVERSATION. k Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free from indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood. —Shakespeare. * » * • SMILE! Let us smile with equal calmness at the bigots who would damn people for losing their way in the dark, and at the pompous dogmatists who would face it out that they can see as clearly as in broad day-light.—Leslie Stephen. • * • » ALL CAN BE RICH SPIRITUALLY. An aspiration is a joy for ever, a possession as> solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives ( us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity. To have many of these is to be spiritually rich. —Robert Louis (Stevenson. ACCIDENTAL IMPROVEMENT. The knowledge which is brought out to insult me may accidentally improve me; and in the rich man's houses and pictures, his parks and gardens, I have a temporary usufruct at least.— Charles Lamb. « * « » WHAT EDUCATION MIGHT DO. The philosopher, the saint, or the hero, the wise, the good,* or the great man, very often lie hid or concealed in a plebian, which a proper education might have disinterred and have brought to light.—Addison.