Life and Literature Part 136

--_Ovid._

1893

Tears are the diamonds of the eye.

1894

TEARS--SILENCE OF

See the tide working upward to his eye, And stealing from him in large silent drops, Without his leave.

--_Young._

1895

Control your temper, for if it does not obey you, it will govern you.

--_Horace._

1896

Good temper is like a sunny day.

--_French._

1897

If you have a good temper, keep it; if you have a bad one, don't lose it.

1898

When you're in the right you can afford to keep your temper, and when you're in the wrong you can't afford to lose it.

1899

Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle.

--_Spurgeon._

1900

Toil is a foil against temptation.

1901

ONE VIEW OF THEATRES.

The chief reason why no Christian should attend the theatre is the character of a large majority of plays put on the stage.

Listen to what the play-writers and actors themselves say:

M. Dumas, a French writer of plays, wrote: "Never take your daughter to the theatre; it is not merely the work that is immoral, it is the place."

W. C. Macready, the great actor, said: "None of my children shall ever, with my consent, enter a theatre, or have any visiting connection with actors or actresses."

Edwin Booth, the great tragedian, wrote: "My knowledge of the modern theatre is so very meagre that I never permit my wife or daughter to witness a play without previously ascertaining its character. The theatre is permitted to be a mere shop for gain, open to every huckster of immoral adventures,--jimcracks."

f.a.n.n.y Kemble, the actress, confessed that life on the stage was unhealthy to morals, and said: "I never presented myself before an audience without a s.h.i.+rking feeling of reluctance, or without thinking the excitement I had undergone unhealthy, and the personal exhibition odious."

--_Southern Churchman._

1902

An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory.

1903

Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.

1904

Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done.

--_Persian Proverb._

1905

Don't despise a slight wound, or a poor relative.

1906

Never despise small things, for we were all infants before we became men, and pupils, ere we became teachers.