Gems

Life is short, but there is always Ame enough ior courtpsy.- Kmor.son. Do the truth you know and you uhall learn the truth you need to know.- George MateDonald. He who comes up to liis own idea of greatnees must always have had a very low standard of it in )ii,s own ■miiul.- Hazlitt. The íirst ingrediënt in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor and the fourth -vit.- Sir Williaiu Temple. Histories make mem wlse; poets, vitty; the mathematica, Bubtile; natural philosophy, deep; logic and rhetotic, able to contend. - Bacon. The great moments of life are but ■momente like the others. A single look írom the eyes, a mere pressure oí tlie hand may decide it; or of the lips, though they cannot Bpeak.- Thackery. (iod AvUl put up with a great many things in the human heart, but there ifl one thing that he wlM not put up ■with in it- a tsecond place. He who offers God a Becond place, offers him tío place. - Ruskin. It ís very cheap wlt that finds it so droll that a woman should vote. If the lull vote, the passion, the vices, are aüowed a full vote, through the hands of a halí-brutal, intemperate population, I think it but fair that the virtues, tlie aspirations, should be allowed a full voice as an offset, througli the purest of the people.- Ralph Waldo Emerson.