Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1891 — Maxims of Talleyrand. [ARTICLE]

Maxims of Talleyrand.

The love of glory ean only create a hero; the contempt of it creates a great man. Theologians resemble dogs, that gnaw large bones for the sake of very little meat A rich man despises those who flatter him too much, and hates those who do not flatter him at all. Life, to a young man, is like a new acquaintance, of whom he grows disgusted as he advances in years. There are two things to which we never grow accustomed —the ravages of time and the injustice of our fellow-men. Both erudition and agriculture ought to be encouraged by government; wit and manufactures will come of themselves. The reputation of a man Is like hfs shadow—gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when It follows. The errors of great men and the good deeds of reprobates should not be reck; oned in our estimates of their respective characters. ' ", "