THINGS WORTH KNOWING.
Only the good is worth knowing, and only the beautiful worth studying.
TOBACCO.
Tobacco in excess fouls the breath, discolors the teeth, soils the complexion, deranges the nerves, reduces vitality, impairs the sensibility to beauty and to pleasure, abets intemperance, promotes idleness, and degrades the man.
TRADE-LIFE.
Formerly, when great fortunes were made only in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are made only by business, business is war.
TRUTH-SEEKERS.
Hamlet, in the ghost scene, is a fine example of the questioning spirit pursuing its inquiries regardless of consequences. The apparition which affrights and confounds his companions only spurs his not less timid, perhaps, but more speculative nature into following and plying it with questions. Only thus should Truth be followed, with an interest great enough to overmaster all fears as to whither she may lead and what she may disclose.
UGLY MEN.
When a man is hideously ugly his only safety is in glorying in it. Let him boldly claim it as a distinction.