| Show gems of thought A fool in a high station is like a man on the top of a high mountain everything appears email to him and ho appears small to everybody drop by drop falls into tho clear well spring of youth the bittor water of experience and there ia no filter this sido of the grave that can ro etore the old purity mun is never wrong when he live for others the philosopher who contemplates from the rock is less noble than ohp tailor who struggle with the storm quaint old fuller says let him who expects one class of society to prosper in tho highest degree while the other is in distress try whether one side of his faco can amile while i the other is pinched lord chesterfield heard it re marked that man is the only creaturo that is endowed w ith the power of laughter true said the earl and you my add perhaps that he is tho only creature that deserves to bo laughed at if ye are to livo after death why dont we have some certain knowledge of it said a skeptic to a clergyman why dont you have boroo knowledge of world before you como into it was tho caustic reply A man of an exceedingly contracted mind was ono day complaining to an acquaintance that ho had a very acuto pain ft lettla pain not bidger seemingly than tho point of ft pin its amazing he continued dont you think it is what do you suppose is the cause of it why icalla I dont know replied the other what part of you should be subject to BO very minute a pain unless it be your soul the female heart may be compared tb a garden which when well cultivated tiva ted presents a continued succession of aud lowers to regale the soul and delight the eye but when neglected produces a crop of the most noxious weeds large and flourishing because their growth is in proportion to the warmth and richness of the soil from which they spring let the igind f the young and beautiful female bo stored with useful knowledge and the influence of woman though undiminished in power will be like the diamond of the desert sparkling and pure whether surrounded by the sands of desolation forgotten and unknown or pouring its refreshing streams through every avenue of the social and moral habit |
