Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1896 — MUL TUM IN PARVO. [ARTICLE]

MUL TUM IN PARVO.

All politeness Is owing to liberty.— Shaftesbury. That man is not poor who has the use of things necessary.—Horace. Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time.— Voltaire. The man of pleasure should more properly be termed the man of pain.— Colton. Aplctnretaan intermediate something between a though! and a thing.—Coleridge. There Is no opposing brutal force to the stratagems of human reason.— L’Bstrange. Who ever saw old age, that did not applaud the past and condemn the present time?—Montaigne. They could neither of them speak for rage and so fell a-sputtering at one another like two roasting apples.—Congreve. When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone.—Sir Walter Scott It is not enough that poetry should be so refined as to satisfy the judgment; it should appeal to our feeling and imagination.—Horace. There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which beams and blazes in the dark hours of adversity.—lrving. Repartee is the highest order of wit, as it bespeaks the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused.—Colton. Men and things have each their proper perspective; to judge rightly of somy it is necessary to see them near, of others we can never judge rightly but at a distance.— Rochefoucauld. Reason elevates our thoughts as high as the stars, and leads us through the vast space of this mighty fabric; yet it comes far short of the real extent of our corporeal being.—Johnson.