Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1901 — WORDS OF WISDOM. [ARTICLE]

WORDS OF WISDOM.

No sword bites so fiercely as an evil tongue.—Sir Philip Sidney. Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.—J. Wesley. Words are the counters of wise men and the money of fools.—Hobbes. ▲ man of Integrity will never listen to any plea against conscience.—Home. Every one complains of his memory; nobody of his judgment.—Rochefoucauld. He is richest who is content with the least; for content is the wealth of Nature.—Socrates. He who gives himself airs of importance exhibits the credentials of impotence.—Lavater. The men who are always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.—Cicero. Rest, is not quitting the busy career; rest is the fitting of self to its sphere.—J. Dwight Passion may not unfitly be termed the mob of the man that commits a riot on his reason.—Penn. He that is ungrateful has no guilt but one; all other crimes may pass for virtues in him.—Young. It makes great difference in the force of a sentence whether a man bo behind it or no.—Emerson. One part of knowledge consists in being Ignorant of such things as are not worthy to be known.—Crates.