Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1912 — SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUS [ARTICLE]

SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUS

Be slow in speech but prompt In action. x —— When a man lias been helped around one x corner of a square and cannot manage by himself to get-around the other three, he is unworthy of further assistance. ;’ c Nourish good principles with the same care that a mother would bestow on her new-born babe; You may not be able to bring them to maturity, but you will nevertheless be not far from doing so. It Is because men are prone .to be partial toward those they love, unjust toward those they hate, servile toward •those above them, arrogant to those below them and either harsh.—Chinese Annual.