BRIEF AND BRIGHT.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 17, 26 April 1911, Page 46

BRIEF AND BRIGHT.

fn general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.—Ruskin. Wealth is social in its origin, and should be used for social purposes.— Comte.

Anyone can take opportunities—• you’ve got to make them. —Winifred Boggs.

There is much more competition in being rich than in being honest. —Spurgeon.

Ninety per cent of the visitors to a museum go in because it is raining outside. —11. D. Roberts. The difference between a statesman and a politician is that the statesman is dead.—W. Bonum.

Love laughs at locksmiths, but the butcher, the baker, and candlestick maker arouse no mirth.—Pulitzer.

The danger of a little knowledge of things is disputable; but beware the little knowledge of oneself.—George Meredith.

To be happy is the first step toward being pious.—R. L. Stevenson. Be good and you will be happy, though you may miss a good deal of fun.—

Carrington. The individual must be free to reach his best; the whole community must profit by his best.—Philip Thomas.

The darkest shadows of life are those which a man himself makes when he stands in his own light.—Lord Avebury.

When you hear a man remark that accidents will happen, you may be pretty sure he has been doing something, he shouldn’t.—C. Simpson. Many a woman makes up everything except her mind.—Schenk. A true gentleman has no need of selfcommand ; he simply feels rightly on all occasions.—Ruskin.

The fellow who boasts that he can take one drink and stop isn’t always to be believed, not by a jugful.—Pulitzer.

If one-half of the world does not know how the other half lives, it is not the fault of the woman next door.—George B. Deacon.

He who knows the value of truth, money, and success seems frank, generous, and modest to those who do not.—• G. Bernard Shaw.

Self-help is a glorious thing and one of our numerous birthrights, but it' should stop short of helping oneself to all the gravy in the dish.—William de Morgan. How to develop the emotion of love in another is the great question of to-day—-the art of making love. It needs a great deal of study and a great deal of practice.—“Record Herald.”

The ancients did their utmost to prove that they,issued from the gods; we do oiu' best to demonstrate that we have descended from monkeys. What exquisite, modesty.—“ Journal,” Paris. I