Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1891 — APHORISMS. [ARTICLE]

APHORISMS.

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.—Henry Ward Beecher. Thk necessity of circumstances proves friends and.detects enemies. —Epictetus. Natue* makes no vagabonds, th# world makes us respectable.— Alexander Smith. To he content with what we pos ess is the greatest and most secure of riches. —Cicero. Ali. great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinkings.—Charles 11. Parkhurst. Confidence is a thing not to be produced by compulsion. Men cannot be forced into trust—Daniel Webster. Tiii.be is in every human countenance cm her a history or a prophecy, which m ist sadden, or at least soften, every redacting observer.—Coleridge. The most sublime psa'm that can be heard on this earth is the lisping of a human son! from the lips of childhood.— victor Hugo. Thebe are many more clever women in the world than men think for; our habit is to despise them; we believe they do not think becau e tney do not contradict us, and that they are weak because they do not struggle to rise up against us A man only begins to know women as he grows old, and for my part my opinion of their cleverness rises eve' - ” da- -Thackerav.