Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1896 — May Prove Interesting. [ARTICLE]

May Prove Interesting.

A good laugh is sunshine in a house. —Thackeray. In law nothing is certain but the expeuse.—S. Butler. The envious man grows lean at the excess of his neighbor.—Horace. Angling is somewhat like poetry; men are to be born so.—lzaak Walton. The devil owes much of his success to the fact that he is always on hand. Who plays for more than he can lose with pleasure stakes his heart.—Herbert. Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow from them.—Mine, de Stael. Some who affect to dislike flattery may yet be flattered indirectly by a well-seasoned abuse aud ridicule of their rivals.—Colton. Those who make us happy are always thankful to us for being so; their gratitude is the reward of their benefits.—Mine. Swetchine, The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower Is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air.—T. Starr King. Time’s gradual touch lias moldered into beauty many a tower, which, when It frowned with all its battlements, was only terrible.—Mason. Of what use is genius, if the organ is too convex or concave, and can not find a focal distance within the actual horizon of human life.—Emerson. The angels may have wider spheres of action, may have nobler forms of duty, but right with them and with us is one and the same thing.—Chapin. Some decent, regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural nor unjust nor impolitic.— Burke. Nothing more powerfully argues a life beyond this than the failure of ideals here. Each gives us only fragments of humanity, of heart, of mind, of charity, of love and of virtue.— Anon.