He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger.—Greek.
The wide-awake boy will see the advantage of carrying in his thought these words of Lavater: “He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers, and ceases when he has no more to say is in possession of some of the best requisites of man.”
Stones and sticks are flung only at fruit-bearing trees.—Persian.
The man of words and not of thoughts
Is like a great long row of naughts.
“There is a gift beyond the reach of art, of being eloquently silent,” says Bovee, and Caroline Fox tells us that “the silence which precedes words is so much grander than the grandest words because in it are created those thoughts of which words are the mere outward clothing.” To speak to no purpose is as idle as the clanging of tinkling cymbals.
Let every man be occupied, and occupied in the highest employment of which his nature is capable, and die with the consciousness that he has done his best.—Sydney Smith.
A thoughtful man will never set
His tongue a-going and forget
To stop it when his brain has quit