It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night,— -Ben Jonson We find in life exactly what we put in it. Duty done is the soul's fireside. -Emerson. -Browning. Can a man help imitating that with which he holds reverential converse? -Plato. Discretion of speech is more than eloquence. -Bacon. Is anything more wonderful than another, if you consider it maturely? I have seen no man rise from the dead; I have seen some thousands rise from nothing. I have not force to fly into the sun, but I have force to lift my hand, which is equally strange. -Carlyle. As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you, in a book, or a friend, or, best of all, in your own thoughts, the eternal thought speaking in your thought. -George Macdonald. A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. -Margaret Fuller Ossoli. Manners are the happy ways of doing things. If they are superficial, so are the dewdrops, which give such a depth to the morning meadow. -Emerson. A higher morality, like a higher intelligence, must be reached by a slow growth. -Herbert Spencer. Oh, the little birds sang east, and the little birds sang west, And I smiled to think God's greatness flowed around our incompleteness, Round our restlessness, His rest. Then wisely weigh -Mrs. Browning. Our sorrow with our comfort. Books are embalmed minds. -The Tempest. -Bovee. Great men seem to be a part of the infinite, brothers of the mountains and the seas. -Ingersoll. "Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech." It was a dark, chill, misty morning, like to end in rain; one of those mornings when even happy people take refuge in their hopes. -George Eliot. Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it. -Horace Mann. |