Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1882 — SELECTED MISCELLANY. [ARTICLE]

SELECTED MISCELLANY.

Where children are, there is the golden age.— Novalis. We must learn to infuse sublimity into trifles; that is power.— Millet. The world does not require so much to be informed as to be reminded.— Hannah Moore. Action may not always bring happi ness, but there is no happiness without action. — Beaconsfield. Slumber not in the tents of your columns. The world is advancing, advance with it.— Mazzini. All the scholastic scaffolding falls as a ruined edifice before one single word—faith.— -Napoleon. To correct an evil which already exists is not so wise as to foresee and prevent it.— Chinese Proverb. Next to an effeminate man, there is nothing so disagreeable as a mannish woman.—Charles Dudley Warner. Be courageous and noble-minded; our own heart, and not other men’s opinions of us, forms our true honor.— Schiller. Common sense, does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it, and plays the game.— Wendell Phillips. Pleasure may bo aptly compared to many very great books, which increase in real value in the proportion they are abridged. We think our civilization is near its meridian, but we are yet only at the cock-crowing and the morning star.— Emerson. There were never in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains. The most univereal quality is deversity. Nothing makes the world seem so spacious as to have fiiends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.— Thoreau. Ie you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. That is where they should be; but put foundations under them.— Thoreau. He that waits for an opportunity to do much at once may breathe out his life in idle wishes; and regret, in the last hour, his useless intentions and barren zeal. Character is not cut in marble—it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.— George Eliot. Nothing so increases reverence for others as a great sorrow to one’s self. It teaches one the depths of human nature. In* happiness we are shallow and deem others so. Talk to women as much as you can. This is the best school. It is the way to gain fluency, because you need not care what you say, and had better not be sensible.— Beaconsfield.