Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1896 — May Prove Interesting. [ARTICLE]

May Prove Interesting.

A good laugh is sunshine in a house. —Thackeray. In law nothing is certain but the expense.—S. Butler. The envious man grows-lean at the excels of his neighbor.—Horace. Angling is somewhat like poetry; men are to be born so.—lzaak Walton. The devil owes much of liis success to the fact that he is al ways on hand. Who plays for more than he can lose with his heart.—Herbert. Sow good servieds; sweet remembrances will grow from them. —Mme? de Stael. Some who affect to dislike flattery may yet;be flattered indirectly by a well-seasoned abuse; and ridicule or their rivals.—Colton. Those who make us happy are always thankful to us for being so; their gratitude is thp reward of their benefits.—Mme. Swetchine. ’The spirit of a person’s life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air.—T. Starr King. Tinge's gradual touch has moldered into beauty many a tower, which, when it frowned with all its battlements, was only terrible. —Mason. Of what use is genius, if the organ is too convex pr concave, and can not find n focal distance within the actual horizon of human life.—Emerson. The angels may have wider spheres of action, may have nobler forms of duty, but right with them and with us is one and the same thing.—Chapin. Some decent, regulated pre-eminence, some' preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural nor unjust nor ■ impolitic.— Burke. Nothing more powerfully argues a life beyond this than the failure of ideals here. Each gives us oply fragments of humanity, of heart, of mind, of charity, of love aud of virtue. — Anon.