Pithy and Pertinent Paragraphs

1900

Written for The Ram's Horn by W. L. Y. Davis

An aimless life is a nameless life.

The well-rounded Christian keeps square with the world.

Birth sometimes gives a man his berth.

Rome was taken for Christ by a tentmaker.

The life of love is better than the love of life.

He who lives only for himself has little to live for.

Many a man never opens his mouth but he gets his foot in it.

Every aching void in the human heart is part of the "great gulf fixed."

A froward youth is sometimes brought up better by being brought down.

The best beam for the eye is the sunbeam.

Bury your troubles and erect no tombstones.

He who is believing God ought to be leaving the devil.

The most arbitrary king in the world is drinking.

He who gives a piece of his mind has little peace of mind left.

Temperance ought not to lose its temper any more than it ought to drink whiskey.

The phials filled with the prayers of the saints fill the viols of the angels with praise.

The man who is most generous in forgiving others is most generous in giving for others.

—The Ram's Horn, March 17, 1900, p. 7.