242. Man conquers the sea and its storms. He climbs the heavens, and searches out the mysteries of the stars. He harnesses the lightning. He bids the rocks dissolve, and summo:s the secret atoms to give up their names and laws. He subdues the face of the world, and compels the forces of the waters, and the fires, to be his servants.-H. Bushnell.

243.

So from the heights of will,

Life's parting stream descends,
And as a moment turns its slender rill,

Each widening torrent bends.

From the same cradle's side,

From the same mother's knee,

One to long darkness and the frozen tide,
One to the peaceful sea!

-O. W. Holmes

244. A taste for reading will always take us into the best possible company, and enable us to converse with men who will instruct us by their wisdom, and charm us by their wit; who will soothe us when fretted, refresh us when weary, counsel us when perplexed, and sympathize with us at all times.

-Geo. S. Hillard.

245. How far that little candle throws its beams!

So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Shakespeare

246 Whene'er a noble deed is wrought,
Whene'er is spoken a noble thought,
Our hearts in glad surprise
To higher levels rise.

Honor to those whose words or deeds

Thus help us in our daily needs,

And by their overflow

Raise us from what is low.-Longfellow.

247. There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness in work. Were he never so benighted,

forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works. In idleness alone there is perpetual despair.-Carlyle.

248.

So will I gather strength and hope anew,
For I do know God's patient love perceives
Not what we did, but what we tried to do;
And though the ripened ears be sadly few,
He will accept our sheaves.-Deidré.

249. Expediency is what is prompted by benevolence, approved by wisdom and not opposed by justice.-B. Sears.

250. The aim of all intellectual training for the mass of the people should be to cultivate common sense.-J. Stuart Mill.

There seems but worthy one-to do men good.
It matters not how long we live, but how.
For as the parts of one manhood, while here
We live in every age: we think and feel,
And feed upon the coming and the gone
As much as on the now time. Man is one:
And he hath one great heart. It is thus we
feel,

With a gigantic throb athwart the sea,

Each other's rights and wrongs: thus are we men.-P. J. Bailey.

252. The bright days of youth are the seed-time of life. Every thought of the intellect, every motion of the heart, every word of the tongue, every principle adopted, every act performed, is a seed whose good or evil fruit will be the bliss or bane of after life. -D. Wise

253. Be good, my child, and let who will be clever; Do noble deeds, not dream them all day long; And so make life, death, and that vast for ever One grand, sweet song.-Chas. Kingsley.

254. Eternity has no gray hairs! The flowers fade, the heart withers, man grows old and dies, the world lies down in the sepulchre of ages, but time writes no wrinkles on the brow of Eternity.-Heber.

255. As prisoners in castles look out of their grated windows at the smiling landscape, where the sun comes and goes, so we from this life, as from dungeon bars, look forth to the heavenly land, and are refreshed with sweet visions of the home that shall be ours when we are free.-H. W. Beecher.

256.

When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must trust charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps heaven will show us the reason why.-Mrs. Craik,

257.

There will come a weary day
When, overtaxed at length,
Both hope and love beneath
The weight give way:

Then with a statue's smile,
A statue's strength,

Patience, nothing loth,

And uncomplaining, does

The work of both.-Coleridge.

258. Fear to do base, unworthy things, is valor! I never thought an angry person valiant; Virtue is never aided by a vice;

And 'tis an odious kind of remedy

To owe our health to a disease.

-Ben, Jonson

259. All that is good, all that is true, all that is beautiful, all that is beneficent, be it great or small, be it perfect or fragmentary, natural as well as supernatural, moral as well as material, comes from God. -Newman.

260. There's not a flower that decks the vale,

261.

There's not a beam that lights the mountain, There's not a shrub that scents the gale,

There's not a wind that stirs the fountain,

There's not a hue that paints the rose,
There's not a leaf around us lying,
But in its use or beauty shows

True love to us, and love undying.

-G. Griffin.

Yet do thy work; it shall succeed In thine or in another's day;

And if denied the victor's meed,

Thou shalt not lack the toiler's pay.
Faith shares the future's promise; Love's
Self-offering is a triumph won;

And each good thought, or action, moves
The dark world nearer to the Sun.

Then faint not, falter not, nor plead
Thy weakness; truth itself is strong;

The lion's strength, the eagle's speed,

Are not alone vouchsafed to wrong.— Whittier