SAVONAROLA, 1452.

SAVONAROLA'S nature was one of those in which opposing tendencies coexist in almost equal strength: the passionate sensibility which, impatient of definite thought, floods every idea with emotion and tends towards contemplative ecstasy, alternated in him with a keen perception of outward facts and a vigorous, practical judgment of men and things.

George Eliot.

LIVE upon the faith of yesterday, waiting for the faith of to-morrow.

Savonarola.

September 22.

MICHAEL FARADAY, 1791.

SCIENCE teaches us to be neglectful of nothing, not to despise the small beginnings, -— they precede of necessity all great things.

Faraday.

THY Soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart:
Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea,
Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free;

So didst thou travel on life's common way
In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart
The lowliest duties on herself did lay.

Wordsworth.

HELEN A. SHAFER, 1839.

(PRESIDENT) WILLIAM DE WITT HYDE, 1858.

"ONE who never turned his back, but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break,

Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would

triumph,

Held we fall to rise again, are baffled to fight better,

TRUE love's the gift which God has given
To man alone beneath the heaven:

It is the secret sympathy

The silver link, the silken tie,

Which heart to heart, and mind to mind,

In body and in soul can bind.

Scott.

To go out with one's whole soul towards the being, and that which is most evident in the being, this is good.

Plato.

HE who floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions, - such a man is a mere article of the world's furniture a thing moved instead of a living and moving being an echo, not a voice.

Amiel's Journal.

My duty is to dare all things for a righteous end.

September 26.

YOUNG men, ay, and maids,

Too often sow their wild oats in tame verse,
Before they sit down under their own vine
And live for use.

all these things, writ

On happy mornings, with a morning heart,
That leaps for love, is active for resolve,

Weak for art only.

Byron.

E. B. Browning.

SELF-EXPRESSION is a necessity when the sense of self becomes deep, rich, and powerful.

Hamilton W. Mabie.