OCR Text |
Show GEMS OF THOUGHT Study the past If you would divine the future. Confucius. Memory Is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge. Cicero. It Is the mind that nviketh good or ill, that maketh wretched or happy, rich or poor. Spenser. Among the sons of men how few are known, who dare be just to merit not their own ! Churchill. The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions. pro-fessions. John Newton. I The memory is a treasurer to whom we must give funds, if we would draw the assistance we need. Rowe. We must not judge of a man's merits mer-its by his great qualities, but by the use he makes of them. Rochefoucauld. Rochefou-cauld. I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me; I will be concerned con-cerned at my own want of ability. Confucius. To lay aside all prejudice, Is to lay aside all principles. He who is destitute desti-tute of principles is governed by whims. Jacob!. |