Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1882 — GEMS OF THOUGHT. [ARTICLE]

GEMS OF THOUGHT.

Whoever flatters betrays, m I id life as in chess forethought wins. Strength of mind is exercise, not rest. ' : - Literature is the immortality of speech. Goodness thinks no ill where no ill seems. Distrust him who talks much of his honesty. The human soul needs to develops all its value. Measure your mind’s height by the shadow it casts. Enjoy -what you have; hope for what you lack. Politeness is a wreath of flowers which adorns the world. All philosophy lies in two words — ‘‘sustain” and ‘‘abstain.” Hypocrisy admits the worth of what it mimics with such care. Consolations console only those who are willing to be consoled. Love is like the moon; when it does not increase it decreases. The statliest building man can raise is the ivy’s food at last. It is chance that makes brothers, but hearts that make friends. ‘‘Who has daughters,” says an old proverb, “is always a shepherd.” To remind a man of a kindness conferred is little less than a reproach. “I don’t care for money,” said George Sand, “but for spending it.” Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, let us be merciful as well as just. That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest number. Learn to say no! and it will be of more use to you than to be abl%.to read Latin. Services t© be rendered reconcile friends whom service rendered have estranged. Laws are like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through. 9 & Society is like a large piece of frozen water and skating well is the great art of social life. The man who sells four quarts to the gallon is the best product of the Christian religion. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. Tombs are the clothes of the dead; a grave is but a plain suit, and a rich monument is one embroidered. The men who make fewest conquests among women of the world are those who have the best opinion of them. Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both can be had. No matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of books is the richest and the happiest of the children of men. Beauty is a great thing, but beauty of garment, house, and furniture are tawdry ornaments compared with domestic love. ‘Tis as much a trade to make a book aS to make a watch; there’s something more than wit necessary to make an author.

Most people know something about the discipline of poverty, and leel quite ready to experience some of the awlul responsibilities of wealth. Do not marry, because your wife will be ugly or because she will be pretty. In the former case you won’t like her: in the latter some one else will. When you make love to her the cold woman says, “No;” the passionate, “Yes;” the capricious, “Yes and no” and the coquettish neither “Yes” nor “No.” All the elegance in the world will not make a home, and I would give more for a spoonful of real, hearty love than for whole shiploads of furniture, and all the gorgeousness that all the upholste/s in the world could gather.—Dr. Holmes. I never saw a garment too fine for man or maid; there never was a chair too good for a cobbler or a too per, or a king to sit in it; never a house too fine to shelter the human head, These elements about us, the glorious sky, the imperial sun, are not too good for the human race. * - - I had rather eat my dinner off the head of a barrel, or dress after the fashion of John the Baptist in the wilderness, or sit on a block all my life, than consume all myself before I got to a home, and take so much pains with the outside when the Inside was as hollow as an empty nut. The man of cheorful temperment raises above all earthly alls. If hit breakfast is late and ne misses the train, he hangs around the depot and hills stories until the next train comes along, if his wife is cross he laughs at her till she becomes good again'; iHbe fades to be nominated, he rejoices oyer the defeat of the man who is; if the election goes against him, he talks about the weather and laughs at Uaose vho carry long faces) in short, if you haven’t got a sunny temperament, cultivate one, if the soil is deep enough.