Disraeli's Aphorisms

Lord Beaconsfield once publicly declared, writes a correspondent to the New York World, tliat lie ruled mankind by despi-mig i, and liis bookfl, big speeches, and bis actions combine to prove tliat bis cyaicism was real and not raerely assumed for occasional U8e. Notbing more distinrlly shows bis habitual toneof thought than thecontunuof a well-thumbcd liltle M8. notebook which a literary friend of mine has recently liad thegood fortune to liglit upon wbile overbaullng a box of iiiiKtllaneous rubbisb in a simill sbop i theneighborbood of Clare Murket, London. Tilia important "find" is a small oblong 12ino volume of 120 pages, bound in faded Russia and somewbut stained by damp. Inside the cover is Disraeli's aulograph, and ninety-eigbt of the pages are closely written over on both sides by tlm gama hand. It is diflicult to assign a date to tbe VIS., butlshould fancy troin Inierna) evidence, thatthe greater portion of il must have been set down about the yer 1855. Every line of lt is interesting ai d niinently characleristic of the writer. Ittt clear, however, that the contents of tlie note-book were not lutended for publicallon, at all eveuts lu their present form, for Uismeli more than once in his books dtvcllsupon the nccessity that cxists for the man that desires to succeed to keep on good terms with the fairer sex, and it is perfectly certain that many of these witty cynicisms are enough to set every wotnan in the world III arms against their author. lam peraitted by my friend to transcribe some of the more strikiug entrles In tliis unique and coinmonplace book, and 1 propoM In the present letter to collect those which more particularly deal with the attractive subject of woman. Let me, however.disclaitn sj mpathy with the more rough and ungallant of the seutiments expressed. I think that Disiaeli has treated the sex abominubly. Still I eau notavoid occasionally Iaughing with htm, for hls rellections, thougb nol aiways just, aregeuerally amusing. Ileie is the tirst budget of extracte: "Coquettes give their bloisoms to their lovers and their thorns to their husbands. "Wheu a woinan bas lost one battle she rarely wlns another against the same foe. "A blush of ten announces the departurc as well as the arrival ot shaine. "Wiiy do the Germana make the moon niasculiue? Snrcly we are justlfied In regarding her as feminiue, since she is essentially chaugeable. 'Men are people who make rules, womon are people who make exceptious. "It is recorded that God said: 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.' It would perhap?, have been impolitic in Moses to hint more directly that woman was made in a very dinerent mould. The conclusión, however, is obvious. "There is no marriage in heaven, neither is there any heavan in marriage. "A beauty without wit seems to me to resemble a bait without any hook in it. "I believe that tliere are some women who wear petticoats simply lest they should be mistaken for men. "There is this difference between passion and love - the one breeds headaches, the other breeds heartaches, but neither would be dangerous if there were no fools in the world. "Love certainly increases the popularon of the world, but I doubt whether it adds much to that of heaven. "Of all the womon whom I have known I cliiefly renieinber those who forgot themselves. "It is quite po8sible for a man to respect a woman so much that she shall despise him. "If a man does not take hls wife to church the chances are that, soouer or later, hc will be obliged to follow her thither. "Adam in Paradise must have slept very peacefully - until he had the misfortune to lose hls rib. "A woman is flattered by the love even of a beggar in rags. "iMarriage is much like a spacious birdcage set in a garden on a winter day. The lm would bc out and the outs would be in. "Love, live a flre, is Hable to be extinguished by overmuch 9tirring. "It is otten not until a woman feelsthat she is too oíd to be loved by man that she setkrt to be loved by God. '"The word 'curiuus' means quaint as well as inquisitive. Woman, in both seuses of the word, is a curious animal. "Man is a substantive ; woman is au adjective. "Addition is the bounden duty of a bachelor; when he has mastered it mulliplication will follow as a matter of course. "The two most diflicult things are to paint ¦ picture on running water and to convince a woman who does not wish to be convinced. "Man sometimes calis a woman a goddess, but he would not love her If she weie one. This fact, doubtless, accounts for the partiality which was showu by the eons of God for the daugbiers of men in the antediluvian period. The daughteis of God must have been a little too ethereal. "It does not speak well for the fairer sex that, as a rule, he beistsucceedsamong woman that has thc lowest opinión ot' them. "It is perhaps extraordinary that more marriages do not turn out unhappily, since the woman generally manies to get into the world, while the man as generally marlies to get out of it. "The great argument against the admission of woman to public positions is her inability to be punctual. "A womon may not have a religión, yet she always has a deity. "Most woman teel flattered when thcy are charged with little weaknesses of which they are not guilty; perhaps because they know that her fnults are so often a wom:in'8chief charm. "A man WÜl return rather to her who bal deceived him thau to her whom hc lias deceived. "It is well to rcinember that a woman's eyes and ears are not all at the same side of her head. "If a woman were by nature wlmtshe tries to make herself by art she would be terribly discontentod." " Gentlemen,', sai! an auctlonecr, with true pathos ; " if my father and mother stood where you stand, and dld not buy this stew-pan, thiselegant stew-pan,going at one dollar, I should feel it my bounden duty as son to teil bothof them they were false to their country and false to