Wise Words — "The Wise Man Can Learn"

1896

A little religion is hard to keep.

When love works, it always does its best.

Sin always feels the safest in the dark.

Humility dies the moment it looks in the glass.

The man who hates light, will run from a shadow.

A city's righteous men are a better safeguard than its police.

Don't be a saint in church and a heathen on the street car.

The wise man can learn something from the mistakes of a fool.

In nine cases out of ten the man who has riches paid too much for them.

Give a lie one day the start, and truth will have to chase it around the world.

If there is any dog in a man, it is sure to growl when his food is not to his taste.

Many a man whose prayers are too long, sells goods by a measure that is too short.

If the sun never went down, there are some crimes that would not be committed.

Many a man will fight for his creed, who never has a word of encouragement for his wife. — Ram's Horn.

Hindoo Proverbs — Truth, Contentment, Patience, Mercy

1907

Happiness consists in the absence of anxiety.

Truth, contentment, patience and mercy belong to great minds.

Little things should not be despised. Many straws united will bind an elephant.

It can never be safe to unite with an enemy. Water, though heated, will soon extinguish fire.

He who removes another from danger and he who removes terror from the mind are the greatest of friends.

Courage is tried in war, integrity in the payment of debt and interest, the faithfulness of a wife in poverty and friendship in distress.

Every one looking downward becomes impressed with the idea of his own greatness, but looking upward feels his own littleness.

He who in your presence speaks kindly, but in your absence seeks to injure, must be rejected like a bowl of poison covered with milk.

Gems of Thought — "Patience is Sorrow's Slave"

1877

Gems

Gathered by Mrs. Felix Van Wyke

Patience is sorrow's slave.
Every path has its puddle.
Time passed never returns.
Talkers are no good doers.
There is no joy without alloy.
The more law the less justice.
Great bargains empty the purse.
Strew not roses before swine.
A good fellow is a costly name.
The little alms are the good alms.
He that is down needs fear no fall.
Saving is a greater art than gaining.
The cock is lord on his own dunghill.
Think to-day, and speak to-morrow.
An idle brain is the devil's workshop.
Quick believers need broad shoulders.
Every one is the son of his own works.
Pin not your faith on another's sleeve.
Though a lie be swift truth overtakes it.
Virtue is but dryly praised, and starves.

— The Reynolds Herald.