Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea! The understood is but a small domain of our knowing, and the apprehended is greater than the comprehended. Is it said that we do not know God? True, we do not know all about Him, but we know something about Him:-And we do not know all about one another, but we know something about one another. The understanding is the vestibule of the mind! Uncover thy head, and enter the temple of the soul! behold the power, the beauty, and the love! If we had nothing but understanding how little should we know or think or feel! -Horatio Stebbins. APRIL IN CALIFORNIA An April, fairer than the Atlantic June, Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts. Nay, never falter; no great deed is done -George Eliot. Let it go before or come after, a good sentence, or a thing well said, is always in season; if it neither suit well with what went before, nor has much coherence with what follows after, it is good in itself. -Montaigne. To educate the heart, one must be willing to go out of himself and to come into loving contact with others. -James Freeman Clarke. Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, The useful may be trusted to further itself, for many produce it and no one can do without it; but the beautiful must be specially encouraged, for few can present it, while yet all have need of it. -Goethe. There is a purity which only suffering can impart ; the stream of life becomes snow-white when it dashes against the rocks. -Jean Paul. If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. -Emerson. A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts. -Sir Joshua Reynolds. Do not think it wasted time to submit yourself to any influence which may bring upon you any noble feeling. -Ruskin. Each year, one vicious habit rooted out, in time ought to make the worst man good. -Franklin. The more we know, the better we forgive; -Madame de Stael. The best way of training the young is to train yourself at the same time; not to admonish them, but to be seen always doing that of which you would admonish them. -Plato. I love little children, and it is not a slight thing when they, who are fresh from God, love us. -Dickens. "Thou hast too much to say about thy rights, and thinkest too little about thy duties. Thou hast but one unalienable right, and that is the sublime one of doing thy duty at all times, under all circumstances, and in all places." |