Wise or Otherwise Part 13

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 t.i.tles, 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 s.h.i.+rt.

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.