Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1885 — GEMS OF THOUGHT. [ARTICLE]

GEMS OF THOUGHT.

He that will look into many parts of Asia and America will find men reason there, perhaps as acutely as himself, who yet never heard of a syllogism.— Locke. , It is only through the morning gate <Jf the beautiful that you can penetrate into the realm of knowledge; that which we feel here as beauty we shall one day know as truth.— Schiller. All high beauty has a moral element in it, and I find the antique sculpture as ethical as Marcus Antoninus, and the beauty ever in 'proportion to the depth of thought— Emerson. The culture of flowers is one of the few pleasures that improves alike the mind and the heart, and makes every true lover of those beautiful creations of infinite love wiser, purer, and nobler. — J. Vick. ‘ The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens There is something, therefore, in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, is not merely the creation of fancy. —Lord Greville. Lite has no significance to me save as the theatref tn which ray powers are developed and disciplined for nee, and made fruitful in securing my own independence and the good of those around me, or as the scene in which I am fitted for the work and worship of the world beyond.— J. G. Holland. True humanity consists not in a squeamish ear; it consists not in starting or shrinking at tales of misery, but in a disposition of heart to relieve it. True humanity appertains rather tothe mind than to the nerves, and prompts men to use real and active endeavors to execute the actions which it suggests. —C. J. Fox. Thebe are in many languages proverbs relating to the sad fact that it is not always the laborer that reaps the fruits of his work. This ib often enough the case with the literary research. One man does the work, but another steps in at the last moment and appropriates its most precious results. “I labor,” runs the Talmudic proverb, "and thou findeet the pearL” We are forced, for the sake of accumulating power and knowledge, to* live in cities; bnt snch advantages as we have in association with each other is in great part counterbalanced by our loss of fellowship with nature; For snrely we know that the meadow grass, meshed with fairy rings, is better than the wood pavement cut into hexagons; and surely we know the fresh winds and sunshine of the upland are better than of the vault or gaslight of the ballroom.— Ruskin. No woman can be the worse for possessing brains. The hue and cry set np against higher education, examinations and new openings for woman’s work, has a hollow ring about it. Hen have a sneaking suspicion that they are not so intellectually superior as they have been led to suppose. Unconsciously to themselves, they are afraid of being found out; or else, perhaps, they are lazy, and are fearful of being stirred np. Yet womanliness does not consist in intellectuality. The first thing 4n which it does consist is self-respect.— Samuel Pearson.