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Contentment, Self-Interest, and Calumny: Maxims on Character

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The S.D.A. Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 8, 1880

FromThe Signs of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 14

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Contentment, Self-Interest, and Calumny: Maxims on Character

As frost to the bud and blight to the blossom, even such is self-interest to friendship, for confidence cannot dwell where selfishness is porter at the gate.—Tupper.
A CONTENTED mind continues so by contracting its desires for superfluous wealth; a discontented mind becomes more and more so, by coveting what it does not need.
CALUMNY would soon starve and die of itself if nobody took it in and gave it lodging.—Leighton.