Wise or Otherwise Part 12

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.

Pa.s.sengers 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 n.i.g.g.e.r in a missionary report throws a shadow greater than ten white men.

Vile thoughts only bloom on the dung-hills of depravity.

Coa.r.s.eness is as akin to vice as the flame to the candle.