GLEANINGS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 18, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 51.

SIX things are requisite to create a happy home. Integrity must be the architect, and tidiness the upholsterer. It must be warmed by affection, and lightened up with cheerfulness, and industry must be the ventilator, renewing the atmosphere and bringing in fresh salubrity day by day; while over all, as a protecting canopy and glory, nothing will suffice except the blessing of God.—Dr. Hamilton.

WOULD you not be very much surprised to find a boy going to bed at night ignorant and waking up in the morning a college professor? It is likewise inconsistent to entertain the notion that there is some way by which humanity can secure health without sowing for it.

CHILDREN are like jam. They are all very well in the proper place, but you can't stand them all over the shop.—The Wouldbegood.

TRIFLES light as air are to the jealous confirmation strong as proof of Holy Writ.—Shakespeare.

NOTHING except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.—Wellington.

THE true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.—Goldsmith.

EXAMPLE is a dangerous lure; where the wasp got through, the gnat sticks fast.—La Fontaine.

TO ERR in opinion, tho it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.—Plutarch.

FOR one swallow does not make spring, nor yet one fine day.—Aristotle.

ANY man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it.—Cicero.

TELL me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.—Brillat Savarin.

TO SEE what is right and not to do it is want of courage.—Confucius.

THE most successful time to cure a disease is before it begins.

ETERNAL vigilance is the price of liberty.—John Philpot Curran.

HE hears but half who hears one party only.—Aeschylus.

“BE ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.”

WIND puffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.—Socrates.