THE WORLD DOES NOT REQUIRE SO MUCH TO BE

INFORMED AS TO BE REMINDED.

-Hannah More.

THE NOBLE NATURE

It is not growing like a tree

In bulk, doth make man better be;
Or standing long an oak, three hundred year,
To fall a log at last, dry, bald and sear:
A lily of a day

Is fairer far in May,

Although it fall and die that night,—
It was the plant and flower of light.
In small proportions we just beauties see;
And in short measures life may perfect be.

-Ben Jonson.

We find in life exactly what we put in it.

-Emerson.

Duty done is the soul's fireside.

-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.