Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1901 — WORDS OF WISDOM. [ARTICLE]

WORDS OF WISDOM.

The silert example of honorable parents is immeasurably greater than that of any school, while their opportunities for individual instruction, aided by their natural affection and desire for the child’s welfare, are incomparably more numerous and favorable. The man who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own dispositions ■ vill waste his life in fruitless efforts,' and multiply the griefs which he purposes to remove. Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself will act so toward others. Each day has its mercy and should render its praise. Fresh are the dews of each morning, and equally fresh are its blessings. Can man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace, or their father and mother. If you have never tried to make anybody happy you have no idea how much pleasure you have overlooked. If you want to make friends, interest yourself in the affairs of others; do not try to interest them in yours. Let us be of good cheer; remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those that never come. ’Tis not chance, nor yet fate; ’tis the greatness born with him and in him that makes a man great. The best way to do good to ourselves is to do it to others; the right way to gather is to scatter. The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conteal them.