U. S. GRANT, 1822.

HE (Grant) never underrated himself in a battle; he never overrated himself in a report.

Horace Porter.

I HOLD every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves by way of amends to be a help and ornament thereunto.

Lord Bacon.

April 28.

FOR what has he whose will sees clear
To do with doubt and faith and fear,
Swift hopes and slow despondencies?
His heart is equal with the sea's
And with the sea-wind's, and his ear

Is level to the speech of these,

And his soul communes, and takes cheer

With the actual earth's equalities,

Air, light, and night, hills, winds, and streams,

And seeks not strength from strengthless dreams.

Swinburne.

WHAT is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but

the first step to something better.

Wendell Phillips.

In order to appreciate a type of character, it is not necessary that we should have personally passed through it; be it only possible to us, the key is within us.

Martineau.

SOME promptings you will find in your own breast,

and Heaven will send still more.

George F. Palmer's “Odyssey.”

April 30.

GEORGE D. CAMPBELL (DUKE OF ARGYLL), 1823.

A SWEET Voice “Love thy neighbor,” said;
Then first the bounds of neighborhood outspread
Beyond all confines of old ethnic dread.

"All men are neighbors," so the sweet Voice said. Sidney Lanier.

HE suspected that the way truly to live, and answer the purposes of life, was not to gather up thoughts into books, where they grew so dry, but to live and still be going about, full of green wisdom, ripening ever, not in maxims cut and dry, but a wisdom ready for daily occasions.

Hawthorne.

JOSEPH ADDISON, 1672.

THERE must be many a pair of friends,
Who, arm in arm, deserve the warm

Moon births, and the long evening ends.

So for their sakes, be May still May!

Let their new time, as mine of old,
Do all it did for me; I bid

Sweets sights and sounds throng manifold.

Robert Browning.

It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends; the mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.

Charles Kingsley.

May 2.

UNSOLICITED Opportunities are the guide-posts of the Lord to the new roads of life. . . .

Nobility of character manifests itself at loop-holes when it is not provided with large doors.

THERE are nettles everywhere,

Mary E. Wilkins.

But smooth green grasses are more common still;
The blue of heaven is larger than the cloud.

E. B. Browning.