Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 208, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1918 — WORDS OF WISE MEN [ARTICLE]

WORDS OF WISE MEN

Character, good or bad, has a tendency to perpetuate itself. —Hodge. Words are not essential to the existence of thought—only to its expression.—Dugald Stewart. The only way in which to fit a people for self-government is to Intrust them with self-goverhment.—Macau-lay. We love flattery, even when we see through it, and are not deceived by it, for it shows that we are of Importance enough to be courted. —Emerson. Man’s actions here are of infinite moment to him, and never die or end at all. Man, with his little life, reaches upward high as heavendownward low as hell; and id his threescore years of time holds an eternity fearfully and wonderfully hidden. —Carlyle. —Chicago Evening Post.