Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1901 — WORDS OF WISDOM. [ARTICLE]

WORDS OF WISDOM.

Seek happiness for yourself, and you will lose it; seek it for others, and you will find it. • Books without the knowledge of life are useless; for what should books teach but the art of living? It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies, said Lowell, that the native metal of a man is tested. Good counsels observed' are chains to grace, which, neglected, prove halters to strauge undutiful children. Imprudence, silly talk, foolish vanity and vain curiosity are closely allied; they are children of one family. If one always takes a short cut through life they sometimes regret they did not go the round about way. Life is to be fortified by many friendships; to love and to be loved make up the greatest happiness of existence. There ate two things in which wa should thoroughly train ourselves—to be slow In taking otfencs and to bo slower in giving It. Habits, soft and pliant at first, are like some coral atones, which are easily cut when first quarried, but soon become bard aa adamant No man can tell whether be is rich or poor by turning to bis ledger. It la the heart that makes a man rich. Ho is rich or poor according to what bo 'a, not according to what be has.