JAMES MADISON, 1751.

KIND words and liberal estimates, and generous acknowledgment, and ready appreciation, and unselfish delight in the excellence of others - these are the truest signs of a large intellect and a noble spirit.

Canon Farrar.

EVER facing Eastwards amid the whirl of life.

Père Gratry.

March 6.

MICHAEL ANGELO, 1475.

ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING. 1809.

GENIUS is eternal patience.

How do I love thee? ...

Michael Angelo.

I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;

I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.

I love thee with the passion put to use

In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.

I love thee with a love I seemed to lose

With lost saints — I love thee with the breath,
my
Smiles, tears, of all my life! and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

E. B. Browning.

SIR EDWIN LANDSEER, 1802.

PLUCK the flower that blooms at thy door;
Cherish the love that the day may send:
Cometh an hour when all thy store

Vainly were offered for flower or friend.
Gratefully take what life offereth,

Looking to heaven nor seeking reward,
So shalt thou find, come life, come death,
Earth and the sky are in sweet accord.

Louise Manning Hodgkins.

O PASSING Sweet communion

Of young hearts, warm and true!

March 8.

Eugene Field.

A CONSERVATIVE is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that ancient institution, the old one!

Douglas Ferrold.

Go to your work and be strong, halting not in your ways,
Balking the end half-won for an instant dole of praise.
Stand to your work and be wise — certain of sword and pen,
Who are neither children nor Gods, but men in a world of men.
Rudyard Kipling.