Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears, To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

William Wordsworth.

There are so many causes, we are besieged on every hand. No one can show the slightest interest in public affairs without at once becoming a marked man, and hunted as the prey of every possible cause insisting upon his cooperation. And yet this leads to distraction, to complexity, to mere dilettanteism. The bane of many of our charities, and of popular causes, political and otherwise, is dilettanteism; and this cannot be overcome unless we concentrate, trying to do justice to the one cause, or to those few causes to which we ally ourselves, - choosing them because we are in sympathy with them, and because we are fitted by capacity and experience to promote them. Justice, too, the fulfilment of one's obligations, is a part of simplicity.

To true simplicity, to perceive a truth is to begin to live it, to see a duty is to begin to do it. William George Jordan.

The beautiful does not obtrude, but appears in simplicity.

Krummacher.

Simplicity is, of all things, the hardest to be copied.

Richard Steele.

Our life is like a German Confederacy, made up of petty states, with its boundary for ever fluctuating, so that even a German cannot tell you how it is bounded at any moment. The nation itself, with all its so-called internal improvements, which, by the way, are all external and superficial, is just such an unwieldy and overgrown establishment, cluttered with furniture, and tripped up by its own traps, ruined by luxury and heedless expense, by want of calculation and a worthy aim, as the million households in the land; and the only cure for it as for them is in a rigid economy, a stern and more than Spartan simplicity of life and elevation of purpose.

H. D. Thoreau.

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A religion of commandments grows burdenA religion of ceremonials grows weariA religion of personal love is ever buoyant with the spring and variety of personal character. . . . Can you not see a special freshness and exuberance and simplicity of joy, a cordial welcoming of every new day as a new blessing in the life of the simplest and most childlike Christians, whose religion begins and ends in this: "I love Christ and He loves me; and I can please Him if I am pure and true and good; and so I will try to be with all my might and His." The great ministry of freshness to the stale lives of men is the Holy Spirit, whose work is to take of the things of Christ and show them

to us.

Phillips Brooks.

A BOY'S PRAYER

God who created me
Nimble and light of limb,

In three elements free,
To run, to ride, to swim:
Not when the sense is dim,
But now from the heart of joy,
I would remember Him:
Take the thanks of a boy.

H. C. Beeching.

The empty vessel makes the greatest sound. Shakespeare.

Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practised in our social intercourse, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplish

ments.

M. A. Kelty.

Men of few words are the best men.

Shakespeare.

Oh, for boyhood's painless play,
Sleep that wakes in laughing day,
Health that mocks the doctor's rules,
Knowledge never learned of schools,

For, eschewing books and tasks,
Nature answers all he asks.

J. G. Whittier.

He sows June fields with clover, and the world
Broadcasts with little common kindnesses,

With plain, good souls that cheerfully fulfil
Their homely duties in the common field
Of daily life, ambitious of no more

Than to supply the needs of friend or kin.

Samuel Longfellow.