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diff --git a/16065.txt b/16065.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4e6e1ac --- /dev/null +++ b/16065.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2415 @@ +Project Gutenberg's Wise or Otherwise, by Lydia Leavitt +Thad. W.H. Leavitt + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Wise or Otherwise + +Author: Lydia Leavitt +Thad. W.H. Leavitt + +Release Date: June 14, 2005 [EBook #16065] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WISE OR OTHERWISE *** + + + + +Produced by Early Canadiana Online, Robert Cicconetti, +Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team +at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +WISE OR OTHERWISE + + +By + +LYDIA LEAVITT + +and + +Thad. W.H. Leavitt + + + + +WISE OR OTHERWISE + +_Entered according to Act of Parliament in the year 1898, by Lydia +Leavitt and Thad. W.H. Leavitt, at the Department of Agriculture._ + + + + +WISE OR OTHERWISE + + +BY + +LYDIA LEAVITT + +AUTHOR OF "BOHEMIAN SOCIETY," "A TRIP AROUND THE WORLD," ETC., ETC. + + +AND + +THAD. W.H. LEAVITT + +AUTHOR OF "THE WITCH OF PLUM HOLLOW," "KAFFIR, KANGAROO, KLONDIKE, TALES +OF THE GOLD FIELDS, ETC." + + +_Illustrated by Anna Lake_ + + + WELLS PUBLISHING CO. + TORONTO + 1898 + + + + +CONTENTS + + +_BOOK THE FIRST_ + + "LEAD KINDLY LIGHT." + A FABLE. + THE WIND. + PASSING THOUGHTS. + +_BOOK THE SECOND_ + + ODDS AND ENDS. + + + + +PREFACE + + +It is probable that the reader will discover among the "Short Sayings" +some familiar acquaintance and even old friend, unconsciously +appropriated. Should such be the case, kindly credit to the "Wise" and +leave the "Otherwise" to + +THE AUTHORS. + + + + +BOOK THE FIRST + +BY + +LYDIA LEAVITT + + + + +LEAD KINDLY LIGHT + +[Illustration] + + +"Lead, kindly light," The words are lightly spoken by the young, +who tread life's pathway with nimble feet, whose eager hands are +outstretched to gather life's roses, regardless of thorns, whose voice +is rippling with laughter and mirth, with blood coursing through the +veins and bright eyes looking fearlessly into the future; the words have +merely a joyous, musical ring. "Lead, kindly light." + +"Lead, kindly light." The words are gravely spoken by the middle-aged, +whose feet have grown a trifle weary, whose hands have gathered the +roses, only to find them turned to ashes, whose laughter has more +sadness than mirth, whose eyes have grown dim, whose lips tremblingly +plead, "Lead, kindly light." "Lead, kindly light." The words are +whispered by the old, whose tired feet are unable to move, whose palsied +hands are helpless, whose head is bowed by the weight of years, whose +eyes are sightless, from whose trembling lips are scarcely heard the +whispered prayer, "Lead, kindly light." + +"Lead, kindly light." The sunken eyes are closed in death, the tired +hands are folded, the heart has ceased to beat, the mute lips are +stilled, the weary feet are at rest, a look of ineffable peace rests +upon the still face, while all the air is filled with sweet music and +the murmur of gentle voices pleading, "Lead, kindly light." + + + + +A FABLE + +[Illustration] + +In one of the German forests the stood a tree, which could not be +classified by any of the learned scientists. It was not more beautiful +than many others, but there were distinctive peculiarities which no +other tree possessed. Her dress was of a sadder hue than that of her +companions, and the birds refused to build their nests in her branches. +She was unable to understand the language of her brothers and sisters +and so stood alone and unheeded in the dense forest. One morning she +awakened and found standing by her side a companion tree, odd, like +herself, and she said in her heart:--"I shall be no longer alone. He +will understand my language and we shall hold sweet converse." But he, +in his heart, was saying--"What strange tree is this? We two are unlike +all our companions. I like it not." But she did not hear the murmur of +discontent, and her heart grew glad within her at the great joy that had +come to her and she said in her heart:--"I will cause him to forget that +we are unlike our companions; I will sing to him my softest songs and +gradually her dress of sombre green assumed a brighter hue, young buds +sprang forth, her branches waved softly in the breeze and she wooed the +birds by gentle voice to build their nests in her arms, and, + + "In foul weather and in fair, + Day by day in vaster numbers, + Flocked the poets of the air." + +At eventide she folded them in her bosom, that their songs might not +disturb the sleep of her companion, and while all the forest slept, she +alone was awake and, in the silence of the night, she murmured softly, +"Ich liebe Dich," and when the sun arose the birds from her arms flew +through the forest, singing, "Ich liebe Dich," and all the trees took up +the song; the birds, the trees and the brooks caught up the refrain and +all the great forest sang, "Ich liebe Dich, Ich liebe Dich." + +So the summer passed and her heart grew sad, for she saw the discontent +of her companion, but she said to herself, "When the winter comes I will +shelter him from the blasts," but he said complainingly, "I would I were +like the other trees; I would like my garments to be as those I see +around me. I would my limbs were as those of my companions all through +the forest." And she heard, and said to herself, "I will make his +garments of brilliant green." So she sent from her own roots and +branches the sap--her life blood--to enrich the roots and beautify the +dress of her companion. When the cold blast of winter swept through the +forest she sheltered him with her long limbs, when the snow fell she +covered his head with her branches and caught the weight of snow in her +own arms; so all through the long winter she sheltered him from the +blasts and the weight of snow bore heavily on her branches and at times +they grew weary almost to breaking but her great heart never faltered. + +So the spring came and day by day she sent from her own store of +life-blood to enrich that of her companion and soon his garments assumed +the most brilliant hues of all the trees in the forest; the leaves +glinted and glistened in the sunlight, and from the branches there was +ever a low murmur of song; the birds came to build their nests and rear +their young in his arms; and over all there floated a delicate perfume +born of the love which she had breathed over him all the long winter. So +in all the forest there was none so beautiful and stately as he. + +His companion said, "Now will he be happy," but her own great heart +began to beat more slowly, the life-blood of which she had given him +could not be replaced, and her garments gradually assumed a sombre hue +and her arms were empty, for the birds no longer nested there. + +One morning she awakened and found her companion gone. He had joined the +other trees in the forest; and now the limbs that had borne the weight +of snow began to wither, her leaves began to fall, and when the winter +came again there was no raiment to cover her. + +And the woodman said, + +"We will cut this tree down, it is dead." + +[Illustration] + + + + +THE WIND + + +[Illustration] + +"Hark to the voice of the wind!" we say, as the windows rattle and house +shakes; the winds as they shout in angry voices, clamoring louder in +their fury, are telling of storms at sea, of the battles with the ships +and the brave hearts that have gone to their death. + + "It has been on the desolate ocean + When the lightening struck the mast; + It has heard the cry of the drowning, + Who sank as they hurried past. + The words of despair and anguish + That were heard by no living ear; + The gun that no signal answered-- + It brings them all to us here. + Hark to the voice of the wind!" + +It shakes angrily the trees whose limbs are swaying in protest against +the onslaught; it carries the leaves rustling to the ground, and in its +fury uproots the giant oaks, which groan in agony as they are hurled to +the ground, lying like soldiers on the field of battle. + + "Hark to the voice of the wind!" + +Its fury is abated, and softly, like a benediction it enters the room +where the weary mother is watching by the bedside of her sick child; it +gently fans the fevered head; it touches with a caress the parched lips +of the babe, and with murmur of song it lulls the child to rest. + + "Hark to the voice of the wind." + +It enters the counting room of the tired man of business, bringing a +perfume of flowers: he lays down his pen, while his thoughts go back to +the home of his boyhood, to the meadows, to the hillside covered with +flowers, the new-mown hay, and the tired brain is refreshed, he knows +not how, and the unseen messenger is gone-- + + "Hark to the voice of the wind!" + +It visits the silent City of the Dead and gently scatters the leaves +over the new-made grave of a young child, sighing softly the while, the +voice now rising, now falling, sobbing and moaning, and at last dies +away in a melancholy sound, like the strings of an Aeolian harp touched +by unseen hands. + + "Hark to the music of the wind!" + +Human nature approaches the Divine in moments of great sacrifice, +forgiveness and self-forgetfulness. + + + + +PASSING THOUGHTS + + +"It seems the fate of woman to wait in silence while men act," 'Men must +work and woman must weep.' + + * * * * * + +How delightful it must be to understand one's own nature thoroughly, to +know that no whirlwind will ever sweep us off the beaten track, no +stormy passions stir the calm placidity of our life. But is that life? +No, give me the glories of expectation, the wildest exhaltation; the +heart beating, the brain throbbing, the stormiest passions with force +enough to carry everything before them, even if they bring deep +grief--that is life. + + * * * * * + +People who deal in dry, hard facts are not interesting. They may make +themselves names in the financial world, may become railway magnates and +coal kings, may control the money market; but they are not interesting. +They are the prose of life. They who see the clouds forming into +fantastic shapes, the glories of a sunset, the shadows in pools, the +colour on a bird's wing, the rose tint on the cheek of a child,--they +and such as they are the poetry of life. + +Man's inhumanity to man is proverbial, woman's inhumanity to woman is +diabolical. + + * * * * * + +"Society, as it exists at present moment in Colonial towns and cities, +possesses neither birth, brains or breeding." + + * * * * * + +"We hear men speak so frequently of womanly women, ending their praises +with, 'she is essentially womanly.' I knew one of these womanly women, +whose voice was like liquid music, whose ways were gentle, whose eyes +filled with tears at the recital of some tale of woe, and always about +her was an air of gentle, womanly sweetness and dainty femininity. She +had a friend who loved her, one whose voice was not so soft, whose +manner was brusque, who was considered, "not quite good form, you know." +My womanly woman allowed this friend to take upon herself the burden of +a sin which she herself had committed, allowed her to bear the brunt of +scorn and contumely of her world, allowed her to die without righting +the great wrong. A lonely grave and a plain marble slab mark the spot +where she who was "not quite good form," lies: while she, to whom she +had given more than life, gathers the rose leaves with dainty grace, for +she is so essentially 'womanly.'" + +Life: a little joy, great sorrow, some tragedy, and the curtain falls. + + * * * * * + +Nothing can hurt so cruelly as the hand of love. The hand of hate is +velvet in comparison. + + * * * * * + +There are women who consider the world well lost for the man whom they +love and idealize; while upon close acquaintance they would discover +that he was not worth even the loss of a dinner. + + * * * * * + +Twelve "good men and true", will, after mature deliberation, consign a +man to the gallows. Twelve women, good and true, will, without any +deliberation, send a woman to death by their venomous tongues. + + * * * * * + +There are a few people who would change their individuality for that of +another. We might be willing to exchange positions, to exchange all that +is apparent to the eyes of the world, but our inner consciousness, our +memories, our thoughts, feelings and desires; all that is part and +parcel of ourselves, we hold sacred. + +Some minds are so small that a favour weighs heavily upon them. + + * * * * * + +At times one is inclined to believe that even the gods are guilty of +favouritism. + + * * * * * + +Some people's lives are like a flower, the more they are crushed, the +sweeter the perfume they exhale. + + * * * * * + +There are some people who look so rigidly virtuous and repellant that it +is a satisfaction to feel one's self just a little bit wicked. + + * * * * * + +We look to the higher classes and to the lower for good breeding. Middle +class people are proverbially ill-bred. What can equal the airs and +assumptions of the retired grocer's wife, who has neither the breeding +of a lady, nor the unaffected manner of the working-woman. + + * * * * * + +What a pity there is such an incessant babbling of human tongues, when +the daisies by the wayside, the trees of the forest, the birds in their +nests, could tell us such wondrous things if our ears were attuned to +hear, but the senses are deadened by the discordant din of dismal +sounds. + +Love is the one power which transfigures the common things of life. + + * * * * * + +One-half of our lives is spent in making blunders, the other half in +trying to rectify them. + + * * * * * + +How useless to tell many people to think, for they have nothing to +think. A man reasons, a woman divines. + + * * * * * + +There are so many inconsistencies in life that at times one is appalled. +Take marriage, for instance:--A young woman marries a man who is +tottering on the brink of the grave; old, blaze, a worn-out roue; but +with money enough to gild and gloss the antiquated ruin. She goes before +a clergyman and promises to love, honour and obey. Yes; she loves the +luxury with which she will be surrounded, the glitter of diamonds, the +equipages, the great house, all the paraphanalia of wealth, but she +_hates_ the trembling, tottering, blear-eyed object who bought her. + +The clergyman gives his blessing, society receives them with open arms, +and legalized prostitution is upheld by the majesty of the law and +encircled by the sanctified robes of the Church. + +The ruling passion of the age: worship of self and worship of pelf. + + * * * * * + +The age of good breeding has passed; insolence has taken its place. + + * * * * * + +A woman ceases to think of self when she looks in the face of her +new-born child. + + * * * * * + +There are people who go through life as if they were going to their own +funeral--and did not enjoy it. + + * * * * * + +I would rather have for a friend the most thorough-paced scamp, with a +generous heart, than the most respectable, canting, whining, Pharisee. + + * * * * * + +To stand in a rarefied atmosphere on a mountain height and view the +struggles of ordinary mortals below may be poetic, but it is very +lonely. + + * * * * * + +A woman may defy the world for a man she loves, and imagine that he will +love her for the sacrifice, but no greater mistake can be made. Men are +not so constituted. When he sees her standing alone, dishonored, a mark +for the finger of scorn, her charm for him is forever lost. + + * * * * * +Realism is the grave of love. + + * * * * * + +A woman's smile is two edged. + + * * * * * + +Life is too short to prepare a soul for eternity + + * * * * * + +A great love is only inspired by a great nature. + + * * * * * + +It is as wise to cultivate forgetfulness as memory. + + * * * * * + +Society, a haven for fools; literature and art for brains. + + * * * * * + +Many people have courage to face anything but themselves. + + * * * * * + +A woman is always in love, either with herself or with love. + + * * * * * + +Two things in life man regards with esteem: himself and his pipe. + + * * * * * + +Truth and sincerity are only found in the face of a child and the eyes +of a dog. + + * * * * * + +A young face and an old heart are sorry companions, but an old face and +a young heart are sorrier still. + + * * * * * + +What people will 'say' is the bugbear of small minds. + + * * * * * + +Love would cease to exist were it not for the gift of idealizing. + + * * * * * + +A fly is but a small thing, yet it can disturb the greatest philosopher. + + * * * * * + +Is a new soul created at every birth, or are we merely corpses warmed +over? + + * * * * * + +Kind words and a sympathetic handclasp have done more to reclaim lost +souls than all the tracts ever published. + + * * * * * + +A minute is a short duration of time, yet in that interval one may +experience the whole gamut of human emotions. + + * * * * * + +If the world valued us as we value ourselves the heavens would not be +sufficiently large whereon to inscribe our greatness. + + * * * * * + +What becomes of the characters who play an important part in fiction; +the strong, brave, true fiction-people, whom we love as we read? Is +there no place for them in the world peopled by shadows? + + * * * * * + +There are men who will accept any and every sacrifice from a woman and +after making her a wreck, socially and morally, will say to her, "I fear +that I am injuring you, so I will sacrifice myself and deny myself the +pleasure of your society." Such men would sneak into heaven by a side +entrance. + + * * * * * + +Fate, in a sportive mood, performs some wonderful acrobatic feats with +human nature; gives love of oriental luxury to the woman with nothing a +year; appreciation of all that is beautiful and artistic, to the +ploughman; an epicurian taste to the starving mechanic; while to the +woman rolling in wealth is given the manners and tastes of the +fish-wife; to the multi-millionaire the habits of the canaille, and fate +laughs with glee over the fantastic, incongruous muddle of the thing +called Life. + + + + +BOOK THE SECOND + +BY + +THAD. W.H. LEAVITT + + + + +ODDS AND-ENDS + + +Man's greatest enemy is himself. + + * * * * * + +Never chide fate while will sleeps. + + * * * * * + +The prophet must know the past. + + * * * * * + +Foul words kill the sweetest flowers. + + * * * * * + +Repentant tears are the soul's pearls. + + * * * * * + +Common customs are not nature's laws. + + * * * * * + +No man blesses the calm until after the storm. + + * * * * * + +Much study makes a full head and an empty stomach. + + * * * * * + +You cannot fan the ashes of a dead love into a flame. + + * * * * * + +Innocence, like a beautiful dying day, goes out with a purple blush. + + * * * * * + +To steer the true course, one must not only see the star but have a +pilot. + + * * * * * + +It is easier to remove a mountain than to wash out a spot on a woman's +reputation. + + * * * * * + +The marble heart has valves of flint. + + * * * * * +Women covet satin, as men covet gold. + + * * * * * + +The garments of virtue are of spun gold. + + * * * * * + +When law is blind examine your own heart. + + * * * * * + +Valour in defence of wrong becomes a crime. + + * * * * * + +Man ceases to be a man when his passions die. + + * * * * * + +Trembling patience is better than proud evil. + + * * * * * + +Malice and ignorance constantly itch for trouble. + + * * * * * + +Life is not a funeral dole but a living present. + + * * * * * + +He honours the state who refuses to commit a wrong. + + * * * * * + +Opportunities, like pretty maids, should be embraced. + + * * * * * + +Man's injustice to man shall not be an eternal stain. + + * * * * * + +Defeat may be more glorious than victory. + + * * * * * + +Venom is the juice of a toad tainting the sweet air. + + * * * * * + +You have but to sow the seeds of malice to reap a crop of grief. + + * * * * * + +Men who would face a cannon, tremble before a golden calf. + + * * * * * + +There is no music for man so sweet as that set upon a woman's tongue. + + * * * * * + +I never could understand why doleful songs should herald a joyous +hereafter. + + * * * * * + +If you keep your eyes fixed upon the stars you will fall into the first +mill pond. + + * * * * * + +You are told, "That if you violate a sacrament of the church you will +howl in hell for it." You know that if you violate nature's laws you +will howl here. + + * * * * * + +While poverty spins threads of gold with which to weave a garment to +cover her nakedness, the plutocrat melts the threads into sovereigns for +his own use. + + * * * * * + +Every yellow stream is not the Tiber. + + * * * * * + +The wise man dreads, not noise, but eternal silence. + + * * * * * + +Loud complaints may be only vents for little ills. + + * * * * * + +It is not enough to conceive a truth, we must act. + + * * * * * + +When one is bereft of hope the last sorrow has arrived. + + * * * * * + +The woman who loves not flattery has yet to be born. + + * * * * * + +This must be a golden age--everybody is running after it. + + * * * * * + +Beauty is the recompense given to women for her weakness. + + * * * * * + +Some sins squeak like a snared rabbit--others roar like a lion. + + * * * * * + +An immaculate reputation may hide a multitude of black lies. + + * * * * * + +Angels walk on threads of gold from heaven to earth. These threads are +only spun in the loom of the human heart. + + * * * * * + +Abject spirits creep--men walk. + + * * * * * + +A small hole is a cavern to a mole. + + * * * * * + +A kiss hangs not long on a pretty lip. + + * * * * * + +You cannot rear a new babe on old milk. + + * * * * * + +A man may woo a dove and marry a screech owl. + + * * * * * + +Satire is a javelin which pierces the thickest skin. + + * * * * * + +A mist may hide the sun but it does not blot it out. + + * * * * * + +Some women prefer a great infamy to a little honour. + + * * * * * + +Regard not the manner of your death but your daily life. + + * * * * * + +A churlish silence is harder to endure than a sharp tongue. + + * * * * * + +The man who gives away his freedom is everlastingly bankrupt. + + * * * * * + +The rubbish from men's tongues is hoarded while nature speaks unheard. + + * * * * * + +Human misery is not a volunteer. + + * * * * * + +Mirth's best nursery is contentment. + + * * * * * + +Men fly, women melt into a passion. + + * * * * * + +Prejudice is the marrow of superstition. + + * * * * * + +Better a crust of bread than a funeral elegy. + + * * * * * + +Woman's first fault is no excuse for man's last. + + * * * * * + +Kind words are honey drops to the tired soul. + + * * * * * + +A bad tongue is not the clapper of a good heart. + + * * * * * + +Crossed love is forgotten--crossed opinions, never. + + * * * * * + +Distrust but do not refuse an untried remedy. + + * * * * * + +Hope is the only flavour for a diet of adversity. + + * * * * * + +He is near to happiness who makes another smile. + + * * * * * + +Greed is swifter than a greyhound. + + * * * * * + +Results give the lie to many boasts. + + * * * * * + +Nothing beslimes like a fawning tongue. + + * * * * * + +The smallest pirates fly the blackest flags. + + * * * * * + +The coming tempest is no less a great wind. + + * * * * * + +Better a bleeding wound than pent up agony. + + * * * * * + +Gigantic robberies are nevertheless robberies. + + * * * * * + +Every furrow in the brow represents a drag-tooth of care. + + * * * * * + +A tempestuous petticoat is more bewitching than a satin gown. + + * * * * * + +For the light of beauty men go down into the darkest pits. + + * * * * * + +The smart of the lash soon dies--the memory of it never. + + * * * * * + +The meaner a man is, the meaner he not only feels but looks. + + * * * * * + +The greenest turf covers the blackest soil. + + * * * * * + +Only an earthquake can shake a selfish soul. + + * * * * * + +One woman-wolf is more to be dreaded than a den of lions. + + * * * * * + +There are women whose smile is poison, whose touch is death. + + * * * * * + +Bequeath your good deeds to memory, your bad deeds to oblivion. + + * * * * * + +Pity, as soft as feathered flakes of snow, whitens all it falls upon. + + * * * * * + +If we peep behind a curtain we may see the ghost of our own hopes +grinning at us. + + * * * * * + +The albatross, like a great soul, remains aloft without the flutter of a +feather. + + * * * * * + +My sovereign hope is the inate desire of the human heart that justice be +done. + + * * * * * + +Love is as much higher, than justice as is the tallest mountain above an +ant hill. + + * * * * * + +The people have so often been beguiled that now they refuse to believe +the truth. + + * * * * * +Why is it that down hill is always greased? + + * * * * * + +A stain upon a woman's honour is indelible. + + * * * * * + +Insolence is brutal--arrogance, intolerable. + + * * * * * + +The seeds of ill grow best in the most sterile soil. + + * * * * * + +A heart pickled in gall cannot be called a sweetmeat. + + * * * * * + +The promise of eternal sleep is not sweet to a live man. + + * * * * * + +The most worthless woman is bought at the highest price. + + * * * * * + +A man can put away his wife but he cannot divorce a memory. + + * * * * * + +Many of our good intentions are so feeble, that like snow flakes, they +melt as they come. + + * * * * * + +The earth is a fertile womb bringing forth fruits for all. A few men +claim they are God's first sons and take the crop. + + * * * * * + +There are women who breath forth intoxicating perfumes. The man who +inhales them is in danger of great good or of great evil. + + * * * * * + +Nature, unheard, performs her greatest deeds. + + * * * * * + +Ingratitude is a tree whose fruit poisons the very air. + + * * * * * + +Many could make lye out of the cold ashes of their hopes. + + * * * * * + +Gather the blossoms daily--the frost may come at night. + + * * * * * + +Plant no flowers on the graves of those we have neglected in life. + + * * * * * + +Some men are not content so long as an unfinished crime remains. + + * * * * * + +Some men prefer the drudgery of the devil to the sleep of innocence. + + * * * * * + +Women are tempted to taste a little evil, just to know what it is like. + + * * * * * + +Every life leads up to a precipice, over which a few jump, the others +tumble in and are lost. + + * * * * * + +We know that death is ever marching behind us but we never name the day +when he will catch up. + +To hunt for mischief is to catch disaster. + + * * * * * + +Even a sigh trembles through the universe. + + * * * * * + +Nature must love woman to fashion her so beautiful. + + * * * * * + +The chain of some men's fate must be made of adamant. + + * * * * * + +Revere the dust--it was the men and women of long ago. + + * * * * * + +The keenest blade in South Africa is made from Ralph iron. + + * * * * * + +He believed her an angel--married and found her only a woman. + + * * * * * + +A curled knot of snakes is not as deadly as the signature to a mortgage. + + * * * * * + +In London they no longer say, "Lend me your purse--but your name." + + * * * * * + +A painter's description of matrimony-- + + Introduction: the background. + Courtship: the middle ground. + Engagement: the foreground. + Marriage: the nude subject. + + * * * * * + +Kruger is the epitome of obsolete ideas and living force. + + * * * * * + +A bleating lamb in a great city is in greater danger than in the darkest +wood. + + * * * * * + +There be three birds. + +One lives only in the highest altitudes. + +This bird is Truth. + +One lives on the plain. + +This bird is Expediency. + +One lives in the mire. + +This bird is Subserviency. + +He who writes with a feather plucked from the wing of the first bird +will not be listened to for ages to come. + +He who writes with a feather plucked from the wing of the second bird +will receive the plaudits of the people. + +He who writes with a feather plucked from the wing of the third bird +will be worshipped by the mob. + + * * * * * + +Not gold, not broad acres, not vast power, not blazoned titles, not +eloquence, but truth is the lever which moves the world. + + * * * * * + +When Europe completes the process of Christianizing China that nation +will have disappeared from the map. + +The truth-seeker never digs in the columns of the political newspaper. + + * * * * * + +A money shaver with a conscience would soon be poorer than his clients. + + * * * * * + +I have read of the dog-like affection of woman--I have seen their +cat-like characteristics. + + * * * * * + +Bread snatched from the poor becomes a stone in the rich man's belly. He +has only to eat his fill to sink. + + * * * * * + +What a gas lamp is to a moth, the same is a rose diamond to a +woman--neither see the danger till they are dead. + + * * * * * + +In olden times Sodom and Gomorrah swallowed up the wicked. In modern +times Chicago swallows up the good. + + * * * * * + +Chinaman's soliloquy. "First come missionary, big prayers, little book. +Singee 'Peace on earth and good willee to all men.' Russian Bear swallow +Manchuria, French Eagle strippe off Yellow Jacket, Bille Emperor stealee +Peacock Feather, English Lion grabbe Pig Tail. Damme, hungry lion want +everything." + + * * * * * + +Slander is more subtile than any microbe. + + * * * * * + +You cannot squander ten thousand a year and then balance the account by +thrusting a stale bun, dipped in charity soup, into a beggar's hand. + + * * * * * + +Lolling on a velvet cushion in a fashionable church will not be a valid +answer when you meet the poor girl 'beyond' whom you ground down to make +trousers for twenty cents a pair. You didn't do it? You wore the +trousers, it's all the same. + + * * * * * + +A cynic's description of the honeymoon-- + + Kisses allopathic. + Kisses homeopathic. + The cold douche. + Hot mustard plasters. + + * * * * * + +A lawyer's description of matrimony in the United States-- + + Court--Appeal. + The suit filed. + Rival--an interpleader. + Marriage. Judgement given. + Household expenses. Costs. + Family jars. Proceedings for alimony. + Final hearing. Divorce absolute. + Quit claim. Deed to another man. + + * * * * * + +The sea-side resorts attract many queer fish. + + * * * * * + +The politician is what the people make him. + + * * * * * + +The child which cries for bread is a menace to the state. + + * * * * * + +Infamy may rise to such a height as to become famous. + + * * * * * + +More women have been killed by innuendo than by hard work. + + * * * * * + +To the small boy a circus is more alluring than the Psalms of Solomon. + + * * * * * + +Eternity is an endless chain whose links are youth, old age and decay. + + * * * * * + +The shark turns on his back to devour his prey--the hypocrite prays that +he may devour. + + * * * * * + +The money lender should provide himself with an asbestos overcoat when +he leaves this world. + + * * * * * + +Every girl in store or office means a man without employment. Every man +without employment is a man incapable of supporting a wife. Do you see +the inevitable result? + + * * * * * + +Laughter is the doctor's deadliest enemy. + + * * * * * + +Praise is the cheapest coin but more potent than gold. + + * * * * * + +If all men were brothers nations would cease to exist. + + * * * * * + +Years are required to make a brutal man--hours, a woman. + + * * * * * + +We praise God for our victories. What does the other fellow do? + + * * * * * + +Patriotism is but another name for, 'love yourself and hate your +neighbors.' + + * * * * * + +If churches were made as attractive as gin palaces, the former, not the +latter, would be open six days in the week. + + * * * * * + +When you get there, you will find that Eternal Justice is not built on +the departmental store system. Some pale-faced girl will offer the +evidence. + + * * * * * + +Once Pity and Charity perched on every cloistered gate and cried, +'welcome.' Now they only venture forth on public occasions, when they +will be seen of all men. + + * * * * * + +The cat's serenade gives tone to the back yard. + + * * * * * + +Mental problem. Suicide or side-tracked. Which? + + * * * * * + +The laugh of a child is sweeter to God than a forty minute prayer. + + * * * * * + +The Klondike is as alluring as a pretty woman and equally as freakish. + + * * * * * + +The greatness of the Yukon is only surpassed by the greatness of its +liars. + + * * * * * + +Innocence is a rose bud with a worm outside waiting to gnaw a hole in +it. + + * * * * * + +A blood-sucker on a boy's toe looks bigger to him than a sea-serpent to +a man. + + * * * * * + +An Easter bonnet is more satisfying to a woman than the most eloquent +sermon. + + * * * * * + +The witch doctor taboos a banana tree, the parson the joyous dance. Both +are bigots. + + * * * * * + +The nigger who has learned to drink rum does not regard civilization as +an unmixed blessing. + + * * * * * + +The beautiful is eternal. + + * * * * * + +An epitaph. "He went North and found his grave." + + * * * * * + +The cold marble becomes a living flame under the hands of the sculptor. + + * * * * * + +We cannot turn water into wine but some men come very near turning wine +into water. + + * * * * * + +The coral shell stores up the glorious tints of the sun's rays--the +thoughtful man the words of the wise. + + * * * * * + +A returned Klondiker with gold very much resembles charity--frequently +read of, seldom seen. + + * * * * * + +Whence comes eternal truths? They are written in the rocks, they are +breathed out of the soft, South wind; they are painted in the sunset, +they speak in the flowers and the tiny blade of grass, they twinkle in +distant stars. Ages go by and yet man grasps but one, here and there. +They are messengers to every man, gifted or untaught. He who seizes but +one and embalms it has done a greater service to mankind than the +mightiest king. + + * * * * * + +Prohibition is a frozen dream, real life a red-hot time. + + * * * * * + +Inquisitiveness is but another name for the Auditor General. + + * * * * * + +Capital account is a cavern wherein politicians hide their sins. + + * * * * * + +The summer girl, in the biggest wind, is never blown away from a man. + + * * * * * + +The editor writes most charmingly of country life in his easiest chair. + + * * * * * + +Church choirs are always at sixes and sevens. One day of harmony and six +of discord. + + * * * * * + +A young widow's sorrow for her husband is a phantom minnow--looks +genuine but hides the hook. + + * * * * * + +While the bankrupt tradesman rides in his carriage, his honest +competitor is in the back yard sawing wood. + + * * * * * + +The uglier a woman's face, the nearer to her chin is the hem of her +bathing skirt, no doubt to hide her blushes. + + * * * * * + +The French are steadfast of purpose. +What purpose? +Changing the Ministry! + + * * * * * + +English poet in the Soudan,--"We are carrying 'Sweetness and light' into +darkest Africa!" + +Tommy,--"Yes, we let the light in with the Lee-Metford and the Egyptian +tax-collector will sweeten these coves later on." + + * * * * * + +Mayor of New York,--"We must return the 'Torch of Liberty' by the first +French steamer." + +"What for?" + +"To dispel the Dreyfus gloom." + + * * * * * + +Irate Mother-in-law (to son-in-law about to marry second wife),--"Is +this the way you treat my daughter, lying in the dark grave?" + +"Only striking a match to see into it." + + * * * * * + +Out of the loins of pride and avarice comes the innocent child. Why is +this? It cannot be chance. It means something. When we discover what +that something is we shall remain innocent. + + * * * * * + +Greed grasps while poverty gasps. + + * * * * * + +The agony of despair breeds the monster, 'Human Hate.' + + * * * * * + +The man who refuses to lend to the Lord distrusts the security. + + * * * * * + +The blood of the pauper shall smear the couch of the indolent. + + * * * * * + +The sweat of the poor, frozen into gold, gilds the rich man's purse. + + * * * * * + +The time must come when the dragon's teeth, sown by the rich, will bring +forth a harvest of cold steel. + + * * * * * + +Mother in the kitchen at the wash tub. Daughter in the parlor at the +piano. Quite proper; its a case of rub-a-dub-dub. + + * * * * * + +Why came we here? By blind chance or design? The books are full of +guesses, half-truths and lies. We only know that we are here. From +whence we came and whither we go is the problem. Being here, our highest +endeavors should be to do some little good. Then close our eyes and wait +for the answer. We can find it in no other way. + + * * * * * + +Man and misery are not twins but father and son. + + * * * * * + +The woman to whom temptation never came cannot be said to be virtuous. + + * * * * * + +The blast of the golden bugle shall not always drown the wail of the +poor. + + * * * * * + +When faults lie thick and die, the crop of good deeds to follow will be +the greater. + + * * * * * + +A priest at ten thousand a year is a monument erected over the grave of +Christianity. + + * * * * * + +The cry of the child for bread reaches further into the universe than +peans sung to kings. + + * * * * * + +When Eve was created nature must have cried 'no,' for ever since woman +has continued to repeat the word. + + * * * * * + +The rich go about the world on stilts, lest the poor should touch the +hems of their garments. They are so so high in the air that they gather +no perfume from the wild flowers blooming by the wayside. + + * * * * * + +The hand of Justice has lost its thumb and forefinger. + + * * * * * + +Vulgar speech is a drop of filth from a rotten heart. + + * * * * * + +A fly never sees the window pane until his bruised nose bleeds. + + * * * * * + +The greatest kindness is that which we are not compelled to remember. + + * * * * * + +My aspirations are cut out with a broad sword. My results with a pen +knife. + + * * * * * + +The mathemetician can measure a world, yet he cannot weigh the secret +thing which stirs a poet's heart. + + * * * * * + +Man has waited for ages for heaven to help him. Heaven has waited +equally long for man to help himself. + + * * * * * + +Slaves are bound with fetters of steel--poor men with fetters of law. +One corrodes with age, the other is perpetually renewed. + + * * * * * + +The devil fish of the sea claws his victim, then sinks to the bottom. +The devil fish of the land claws his, then rises to the top. + + * * * * * + +Want issues from the womb of greed. + + * * * * * + +Justice will be done when greed dies. + + * * * * * + +Sympathy is the sheet-anchor of the Ship of Life. + + * * * * * + +One tear is more potent for good than a thousand laws. + + * * * * * + +Charity, though white of plumage, is born of black parents. + + * * * * * + +The avenger strikes down one evil and creates a thousand. + + * * * * * + +Universal love is, but another name for universal happiness. + + * * * * * + +Life without hope is death without a grave wherein to find rest. + + * * * * * + +A man is not only responsible for his acts, but for their influence. + + * * * * * + +To know, and not to do is vile--to do and not to know, an accident. + + * * * * * + +The white flowers of sympathy shall yet bloom over graves in which the +rich rot. + + * * * * * + +Luxury lulls--poverty dulls. + + * * * * * + +A fat priest and a poor flock. + + * * * * * + +The hooked fish has an open mouth. + + * * * * * + +The money lender loves a close shave. + + * * * * * + +Preachers and brokers, alike, deal in future options. + + * * * * * + +Humility is sweet but its path is strewn with bitter herbs. + + * * * * * + +The change for which every woman prays--a change of name. + + * * * * * + +Passengers inside the coach 'Prosperity,' never see the galled steeds. + + * * * * * + +The knout pinches the slave's back. The combine, the free man's belly. + + * * * * * + +The ball dress is diplomatic, in that it reveals what it pretends to +conceal. + + * * * * * + +There is colour in the statement that one nigger in a missionary report +throws a shadow greater than ten white men. + + * * * * * + +Vile thoughts only bloom on the dung-hills of depravity. + + * * * * * + +Coarseness is as akin to vice as the flame to the candle. + + * * * * * + +Indolence lolls in luxury while energy goes hungry to bed. + + * * * * * + +Toil with recompense is sweeter than recompense without toil. + + * * * * * + +Is the African heathen more precious than a sick child in a London +garret? + + * * * * * + +The ashes of a bad woman cannot be cleansed with the waters of an ocean. + + * * * * * + +She who walks the street by night is an outcast. She who seduces a +Prince may die a Queen. + + * * * * * + +Princes on sale for gold, women for titles, virtue for bread, statesmen +for place, and priests for salary. + + * * * * * + +Monopoly. A whip in the hands of plutocrats, which bites the backs of +men and saddens the hearts of women. + + * * * * * + +No soul can remain stagnant. + + * * * * * + +A gossip scatters more ills than a pestilence. + + * * * * * + +'Tis useless to kill the serpent after she has laid her eggs. + + * * * * * + +The poison on the fang cannot injure till the snake strikes. + + * * * * * + +When the unctious priest wants to borrow he cries, 'Lend to the Lord.' + + * * * * * + +We should not blot out the sun because its rays will hatch the eggs of a +serpent. + + * * * * * + +The lion of the jungle seizes his prey by night. The lion of the city by +day; one is stripped to the bone, the other to the shirt. + + * * * * * + +Birds are charmed by snakes, women by beasts in human form. The glitter +of the eye subdues the one, the glitter of gold, the other. + + * * * * * + +Over the grave of each child which dies in the slums should stand a +tablet inscribed, "Died for want of sunlight and pure air." "Who stole +the land?" + + * * * * * + +One tyrant dies that two may be born. + + * * * * * + +A wise man prefers virgin soil to a cultivated widow. + + * * * * * + +The bone of contention is never covered with sweet meat. + + * * * * * + +The woman is most lost who forgets her babe for the ball. + + * * * * * + +Self-righteousness can walk so straight that it leans backwards. + + * * * * * + +More women are drowned 'in the swim' than in mill ponds. + + * * * * * + +When death knocks at the door the servant answers, 'Not at home.' + + * * * * * + +A winged Cupid without a feather can soar higher than the pinioned +eagle. + + * * * * * + +He who seeks for spiritual rest in dogma will find only a bottomless +pit. + + * * * * * + +A wish from the heart travels beyond the blare of the loudest trumpet. + + * * * * * + +It is better to lavish your affections upon a faithful dog than upon an +unfaithful friend. + + * * * * * + +The poor man craves for bread--not logic. + + * * * * * + +A woman without love is a tree without sap. + + * * * * * + +The plutocrats, like the Catholics, thrive on curses. + + * * * * * + +Good advice is an atom; good deeds the universe. + + * * * * * + +The beautiful seraph makes the most dangerous fiend. + + * * * * * + +The ghost of poverty is more dreadful than poverty itself. + + * * * * * + +A religion of details is a fruit tree which produces only blossoms. + + * * * * * + +Each grain in the universe is a unit, remove but one and chaos will +follow. + + * * * * * + +Hills sunlit with promise are easier to traverse than the level road +upon which hope died. + + * * * * * + +It is as easy for the poor man to pluck money from the rich as for the +missionary to pick the pocket's of a naked savage. + + * * * * * + +A tainted heart soils the sweetest lip. + + * * * * * + +Exchange the virus of hate for the antidote, love. + + * * * * * + +A woman prefers a fervent lover to a cold husband. + + * * * * * + +A fickle woman may conquer the most constant soldier. + + * * * * * + +The begrimed soul cannot be hidden with a white-wash brush. + + * * * * * + +Our efforts should be to harmonize, not simply to change. + + * * * * * + +The most precious gem is found in the most worthless sand. + + * * * * * + +The Senate joined to the Commons is an impotent man wedded to a vigorous +maid. + + * * * * * + +The bombastic egotist floats on the crest of prosperity while the +philosopher starves in his tub. + + * * * * * + +The priest counsels men in the sterile present to feed upon a pregnant +future. Tomorrows dinner never yet fed a hungry man. + + * * * * * + +All the good in a human heart can never die. + + * * * * * + +You cannot denude a woman of her masked thoughts. + + * * * * * + +Diplomacy is cultivated in men and bred in women. + + * * * * * + +He who would pluck contentment must abandon force. + + * * * * * + +To console a widow is more agreeable than to court a maid. + + * * * * * + +The man who stains the purity of a woman tarnishes his own soul. + + * * * * * + +It is difficult to distinguish the fleshy lie from the ghostly truth. + + * * * * * + +The private ownership of land is crystalized in the question "Is the +unborn child an heir or a bastard?" + + * * * * * + +Love of the artistic does not account for the crookedness of men, though +the curve is the only true line of beauty. + + * * * * * + +Sly women walk where blunt men fall. + + * * * * * + +The stench of corruption is fragrant to the lobbyist. + + * * * * * + +A shrivelled soul may hide in a bishop's paunch. + + * * * * * + +A slippery friend is more dangerous than thin ice. + + * * * * * + +The kangaroo and the miser carry all they love in a pouch. + + * * * * * + +You cannot staunch a bleeding wound with a memory or a promise. + + * * * * * + +Marriage is a covenant which few women refuse and many revoke. + + * * * * * + +Emotion in woman is the locomotive--wisdom, the cow-catcher. + + * * * * * + +A misfit policy is as dangerous to a statesman as a misfit dress to a +woman. + + * * * * * + +The sting of a bee is not the less to be dreaded because the bee makes +honey. + + * * * * * + +Creed is as akin to righteousness as a 'bucket shop' to the kingdom of +heaven. + + * * * * * + +An act cannot die. + + * * * * * + +To exist is not to live. + + * * * * * + +Degeneracy is born of many parents. + + * * * * * + +The rich man gives advice, the poor man bread. + + * * * * * + +Happiness is now a theory, I would make it a fact. + + * * * * * + +The statute of limitation runs not against evil deeds. + + * * * * * + +The quickest cure for a passionate longing is a cold woman. + + * * * * * + +Through lapse of time the few claim the inheritance of the many. + + * * * * * + +The cause of truth will not triumph so long as it is intrusted to fools. + + * * * * * + +If the weakness of the present industrial system were realized it would +cease to be dangerous. + + * * * * * + +Snakes eggs are hatched by the sun. Misers eggs--gold--by labor. Young +snakes hiss at their mother, misers at men. + + * * * * * + +The charitable heart hath an empty pocket. + + * * * * * + +The cry of the poor is an eternal remonstrance. + + * * * * * + +The ocean of hope springs from a single drop of sympathy. + + * * * * * + +The old-time robber was the father of the new time financier. + + * * * * * + +Injustice sleeps in a bed of roses which rests on a bed of thorns. + + * * * * * + +The lamb 'love' and the wolf 'hate' tarry not long in the same pen. + + * * * * * + +A feather from the wing of truth is of more weight than a mountain of +lies. + + * * * * * + +Only the key sympathy can unlock the sacred chamber hidden in every +heart. + + * * * * * + +The bloodless wreath of love is stronger than a tyrant's chain. The one +shall yet bind the world, the other be broken by a simple wish. + + * * * * * + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Wise or Otherwise +by Lydia Leavitt +Thad. W.H. 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