Part 16

J. G. HOLLAND.

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Nothing is more dangerous than to paint men as they are when by chance they are not as handsome as they would wish to be.

EDMOND ABOUT.

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"Borrow trouble if you have not enough already."

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Refinement creates beauty everywhere.

HAZLITT.

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"A lady may always judge of the estimation in which she is held by the conversation which is addressed to her."

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Some people cannot drive to happiness with four horses, and others can reach the goal on foot.

THACKERAY.

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"The clown who excites the multitudes to mirth is more a benefactor than the conqueror who drapes a thousand homes in mourning."

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"Tact is the art of putting yourself in another's place, and being quick about it."

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"It pays 100 per cent. to be polite to everyone, from the garbage gatherer to the governor."

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"If you wish that your own merit should be recognized, recognize the merits of others."

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"If you cannot be happy in one way, be happy in another; and this facility of disposition wants but little aid from philosophy, for health and good humor are almost the whole affair. Many run about after felicity, like an absent man hunting for his hat while it is on his head or in his hand. Such persons want nothing to make them the happiest people in the world but the knowledge that they are so."

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"An Atchison woman, who three days ago was considered the most popular woman in town, has not one friend left; instead of sympathizing with her friends, as she has heretofore, she began telling them her troubles."

Atchison Globe.

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