FLOWERS OF CHRISTIAN WISDOM.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 95, 20 February 1875, Page 11

FLOWERS OF CHRISTIAN WISDOM.

AMENITY, POLITENESS, CONVEBSATIONS, LIBEBTY. true Chris D tian.-pS. a 8 reaß ° Dable ' *" * hwo * ° r a 9 amiaWe as • Tl^^f/f 11 deßire I to be almoß fc a Ws amiable, and in good humor? Then be at peace always with God and with yourself.-/. Marchal I hare loth misty and fine weather in my own interior.-iWa? Good conduct is the mother of g&jebj.—Jilanchard Jra3ca( '- a m ,»vv^ niU i! tt < C ?i 1T i nc . eyoUrßelf fcLafc ™ tue does nofc detract from «,nt > mP ° Se °^ y^ rsel . £ the obligation of being affable, and remember that it is a real obligation, since we should act so that our presence far from being a subject of trouble to any one, ought to be a pleasure and advantage to all.— Silvio Pellico. «, , Be g°o d : nat Y red '° J bli g in & ttoughtful, and open, and that will make you beloved and disarm persecution. Let them see that it is not through cant and gloom that you renounce the dissipation commonly indulged mby the young. For the rest, gayetyf discretion, kindness, purity of intercourse, and never affectation.— Fenelon , nn if *%? insupportable even with virtue, talent, and good conduct. Manners, which one neglects sometimes as little things not S/ I tlce > a ™ J«st those very things from which men of ten decide our character whether it be good or bad ; a slight attention to keep them gentle and polite prevents an unfavorable judgment. Almost anything is sufficient to cause people to consider us proud, uncivil, scornful, and disobliging, and still less will cause us to be i esteemed qiute the reverse.— La JBruyere a.tZ°^u7l} e S5tT neTa P-P e^ otters of racommenf>rfl .^ meni fy?. and l a^ arfc y welcome, are notes of invitation which are in circulation all the year round.— -J. Joubert Manners are like an art : there are perfect manners, praiseworthy manners, and faulty manners, but there is no such thing EaSS manners. The science of manners would be more important to the happiness and virtue of man than they think.-J". Joubert -«^i °J£ c st^ die ». tbese little proprieties which should be learnt rapidly, those beautiful manners which they wish to obtain will lose what is most agreeable in them-their reality and grace? affection beingin this base, as in all others, always offensive.— Bacon a™-na ™- n d from boing natural than the des - *> o^rZT^X-VaZtli;^ " I have seen in the most rustic places in the world, on the most distant sumnnts of the Alps, mountaineers in whom I have noticed a higher dignity and a gentler politeness than in the inhabitants of the towns. Jhese honest people showed at the same time an ease and reserve full of charm, without improper boldness, without painful he eM for aU beQefitß that are £3?^ » hrtldin S conversation with those who I reduce the law of conversation to three principles. It ought to XX a S u^S4. mßtrUCtl ° U ' a b ° nd ° f --*y, P and a sourcf o°f The art of conversation consists far less in showing much thon in drawing out .others He who goes away from your fociely, Seased with himself and with his visit, is perfectly so with yon.-Zaßruvere When you do not see the gist of things, speak only douKfy and as if questioning.— Tauvenargues. • '' In the controversy of Ozanam was to be observed an extreme endeavor not to wound those who disputed with him, whatever thlir errors might be but this mildness never was carried so far as to disguise his thoughts. — Zacordaire. m, B T n^ P^g t he they are sufficiently unhappy. Ksass ?w-^ unleßß ifc be absoiute * —"> *» Js. Let us be affable but never flatterers, for there is nothing so vile and unworthy of a Christian heart as flattery.-^. Vincent de Paul ( . tO A^ ose^ nCe " afM —^ue than to know Do not affect the mysterious and the important. Keep silence through moderation and prudence, and not by affecting the sage and the mau of gravity. — Bossuet. 6 s Ignorance is preferable to pretended knowledge.— Boileau Nothing is better able to inspire feelings of virtue and to thwart vice that the conversation of. good men, because it insinuates itself little by little and penetrates to the very heart. To hear them to see them often may do in the stead of precepts.— Rollin