Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1919 — SAID BY THE SAGES [ARTICLE]

SAID BY THE SAGES

We ought not to judge of men’s merits by the qualification, but by the use they make of them. —Charron. Take my word for it, if you had seen but one day of war, you would pray to Almighty God that you might never see such a thing again.—Wellington. It is provided in she essence of things that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.—Walt Whitman. It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune; and when you have got it, it requires ten times as much wit to keep it. —Rothschild. It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity of-doing a kindness, or speaking a true word, or maklag a friend.—Ruskin.