Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1901 — WORDS OF WISDOM. [ARTICLE]

WORDS OF WISDOM.

Unreasonable haste is the direct road tb error.—Mollere. To be doing good is man’s most glorious task.—Sophocles. Good counsels observed are chains of grace.—Longinus. We give advice by the bucket but take it by the grain.—W. R. Alger. Life is not so short but that th<»re is always time for courtesy.—Emerson. If thou wouldst be obeyed as a father, be obedient as a son.—William Penn. , Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise meh learn much from fools, —Lavater. If you will not hear Reason, she will surely rap your knuckles.—From Poor Richard’s Almanac. The two powers which In my opinion constitute a wise man are bearing and forbearing.—Epictetud. No rock Is so hard but that a little wave may beat admission tn a thousand years.—Tennyson. If idleness do not produce vice or malevolence it commonly produces melancholy.—Sydney Smith. Half the misery in the world coines of want of courage to speak and to bear the truth plainly, and in a spirit of love.—Mrs. Stowe.