People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

-Emerson.

There must be some such, to be some of all sorts.
-George Eliot.

What is so universal as death must be benefit.
-Schiller.

Once more a music rained through the room.
Low it splashed like a sweet star-spray,
And sobbed like tears at the heart of May,
And died as laughter dies away.

The highest culture is to speak no ill.

-Rossetti.

-Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. -Emerson.

Better trust all and be deceived,

And weep that trust and that deceiving,
Than doubt one heart which, if believed,
Had blessed one's life with true believing.
-Frances Anne Kemble.

There is only one way to have good servants; that is, to be worthy of being well served. Only let it be remembered that "kindness" means as with your child, so with your servant, not indulgence, but care.

-Ruskin.

Hitch thy wagon to a star.

Aspiration is inspiration.

-Emerson.

-Horace Davis.

Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.

Somewhere, for God is good,

Life's blossoms, unfulfilled,

-Plato.

Must spring from dust and gloom

To perfect bloom.

-Ina D. Coolbrith.

The language of excitement is at best but pictur-
You must be calm before you can

esque merely.

utter oracles.

-Thoreau.

Taste is nothing else than good sense delicately put in force, and genius is reason in its most sublime form.

-Chénier.

Little minds are too much hurt by little things; great minds are quite conscious of them, and despise them. -La Rochefoucauld.

Forenoon and afternoon and night,-Forenoon
And afternoon and night,-

Forenoon, and-what!

The empty song repeats itself. No more?
Yea, that is life: make this forenoon sublime,
This afternoon a psalm, this night a prayer,
And Time is conquered, and thy crown is won.

-E. R. Sill.

THE ETERNAL GOODNESS

I know not where His islands lift
Their fronded palms in air;
I only know I cannot drift

Beyond His love and care.

O brothers! if my faith is vain,
If hopes like these betray,
Pray for me that my feet may gain
The sure and safer way.

And Thou, O Lord! by whom are seen
Thy creatures as they be,

Forgive me if too close I lean

My human heart on Thee.

-John Greenleaf Whittier.