Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1879 — GEMS OF THOUGHT. [ARTICLE]

GEMS OF THOUGHT.

Victor Hugo: Our acts make or mar us—we are the children of our own deeds. W. T. Bacon: All our actions take their lines from complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light Hilliard: Man is an animal thatcan not long be left in safety without occupation; the growth of his fellow nature is apt to run to weeds. Rochefoucauld: The art of being able to make a good use of moderate abilities wins esteem, and often confers more reputation than real merit. Seneca: The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience; temperate in prosperity, and courage in adversity. Goldsmith: Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we have loved; we can not realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.! Rousseau: Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of mau; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents him from indulging to excess. Ruskin: To cultivate sympathy you must be among living creatures, and thinking about them; and to cultivate admiration you must be among beautiful things and looking at them.