NOTE The following pages contain the Supplements to the four Numbers of" 100 Choice Selections” embraced in this volume, which, for greater convenience in arranging, are here grouped together instead of appear. ing at the end of the Numbers to which they respectively belong. SUPPLEMENT TO One Hundred Choice Selections, No. 29 CONTAINING SENTIMENTS For Public Occasions; WITTICISMS For Home Enjoyment; LIFE THOUGHTS For Private Reflection; God's justice is a bed where we And, weary with ourselves, may sleep Our discontent away. For right is right, since God is God; And right the day must win; To doubt would be disloyalty, To falter would be sin. Faber. Robertson. Forget mistakes; organize victory out of mistakes. Bless'd be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail, Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale, Goldsmith. Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Bacon Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted; freshment; That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain. Longfellow. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. His be the praise, who, looking down with scorn Bacon. To be, not to be thought, an honest man. Philemon. It is only great periods of calamity that reveal to us our great men, as comets are revealed by total eclipses of the Richter. sun. The tongue is held in honor by such men As reckon words of more account than deeds. Sophocles. Beauty is so precious, the enjoyments it gives are so refined and pure, so congenial with our tenderest and noblest feelings, and so akin to worship, that it is painful to think of the multitude of men as living in the midst of it, and living almost as blind to it as if, instead of the fair earth and glorious sky, they were tenants of a dungeon. Men there are, who, right transgressing, Channing. O'er the sufferers all are ready Wail of bitter grief to utter, Men strain faces that are smileless. Eschylus. Let people prate as they will, the woman was never born yet who would not cheerfully and proudly give herself and her whole destiny into a worthy hand, at the right time, and under fitting circumstances-that is, when her whole heart and conscience accompanied and sanctified the gift. Muloch. Far does the man all other men excel, Who from his wisdom, thinks in all things well; Hesiod. Old books, old wine, old Nankin blue, All things in short, to which belong The charm, the grace that Time makes strong: Old friends are best! Dobson the first ingredient in conversation is truth; the next good sense; the third, good humor, and the fourth, wit. Sir W. Temple. Oh, who shall lightly say that fame Is nothing but an empty name? Joanna Baillie. Avarice generally miscalculates, and as generally deceives. Not mindless of the growing years Of care and loss and pain, My eyes are wet with thankful tears For blessings which remain. J. G. Whittier. A few books well chosen are of more use than a great library. No love can ever make me blind Elmer Ruan Coates. He has but one great fear that fears to do wrong. C. N. Bovee Say the world is a nettle; disturb it, it stings; Don't be "consistent," but be simply true. Owen Meredith Holmes. I know that God is good, though evil dwells That painful love, unsatisfied, hath spells, Earned by its smart, to soothe its fellows' care; Jean Ingelow |