Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1893 — APHORISMS. [ARTICLE]

APHORISMS.

A good conscience is a good sleeper. It is only great men who love work better than play. The first man to denounoe gossip is the man who is the subject of it. A man never outlives those who have seen him make a fool of himself. The world is full of ghosts. Did you ever stop to think that you are a ghost to some one? Thebe can be nothing said greater to the credit of a man than that he never laused any woman trouble. A man spends his life in preparing himself for troubles, and forgets his preparations when trouble conies. How easy it is to plan out a path to pursue, and how hard it is lollop it when you start out op yo ( ur jpprney. If have a single friend on earth, i o matter how humble or insignificant he may be, strive to keep his confidence. Don’t be too profuse in your thanks to the man who lets you have your own way. He may be doing it to cure you of a folly. A man was never so rich or powerful that he had friends who would care for his children, if he should become suddenly poor.