Volume I Part 10 (1/2)

XI

Unto each man comes a day when his favorite sins all forsake him, And he complacently thinks he has forsaken his sins.

XII

Be not too anxious to gain your next-door neighbor's approval: Live your own life, and let him strive your approval to gain.

XIII

Who would succeed in the world should be wise in the use of his p.r.o.nouns.

Utter the You twenty times, where you once utter the I.

XIV

The best-loved man or maid in the town would perish with anguish Could they hear all that their friends say in the course of a day.

XV

True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table: Luckiest he who knows just when to rise and go home.

XVI

Pleasant enough it is to hear the world speak of your virtues; But in your secret heart 'tis of your faults you are proud.

XVII

Try not to beat back the current, yet be not drowned in its waters; Speak with the speech of the world, think with the thoughts of the few.

XVIII

Make all good men your well-wishers, and then, in the years' steady sifting, Some of them turn into friends. Friends are the suns.h.i.+ne of life.

THE QUARREL

BY S.E. KISER

”There are quite as good fish In the sea As any one ever has caught,”

Said he.

”But few of the fish-- In the sea Will bite at such bait as you've got,”