EDWARD EVERETT (1794-1865)

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. If we retrench the wages of the schoolmaster, we must raise those of the recruitingsergeant.

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT (1794-1878)

So live that when thy summons comes, to join
The innumerable caravan, which moves
To that mysterious realm where each shall take
His chamber in the silent halls of death,
Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,
Scourged to his dungeon; but, sustained and
soothed

By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave
Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.

The only way to shine, even in this false world, is to be modest and unassuming. Falsehood may be a thick crust; but, in the course of time, truth will find a place to break through.

JOHN KEATS (1795-1821)

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

The poetry of earth is never dead.

SARAH J. HALE (1795-1879)

There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing.

The sea of ambition is tempest-tossed,

And thy hopes may vanish like foam;
When sails are shivered, and compass lost,
Then look to the light of Home.

THOMAS CARLYLE (1795-1881)

All true work is sacred; in all true work, were it but true hand-labor, there is something of divineLabor, wide as the earth, has its summit in

ness.

heaven.

There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works. In idleness alone is there per

petual despair.

Our grand business is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian; to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish.

History is a mighty drama, enacted upon the theatre of time, with suns for lamps, and eternity for a background.

All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been, it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings, deserves to be read at all.

What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through.

The latest gospel in this world is, Know thy work, and do it.

Pin thy faith to no man's sleeve. Hast thou not two eyes of thy own?

Endurance is patience concentrated.

So here hath been dawning another blue day!
Think! wilt thou let it slip useless away?
Out of Eternity this new day was born,
Into Eternity at night will return.
Behold it aforetime, no eye ever did;
So soon, it, forever from all eyes is hid.
Here hath been dawning another blue day;
Think! wilt thou let it slip useless away?

Cast forth thy act, thy word, into the ever-living, ever-working universe; it is a seed-grain that cannot

die.

The spoken Word, the written Poem, is said to be an epitome of the man; how much more the done Work!

CHARLES J. HARE (1796-1855)

The praises of others may be of use in teaching us not what we are, but what we ought to be.

The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

Thrift is the best means of thriving.

Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others.

To the good

To Adam, paradise was home. among his descendants, home is paradise.

How idle it is to call certain things, godsends! as if there were any thing else in the world.

HORACE MANN (1796-1859)

It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.

The mattock will make a deeper hole in the ground than lightning.

Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and it becomes so strong we cannot break it.

HOSEA BALLOU (1796-1861)

Never let your zeal outrun your charity; the former is but human, the latter is divine.

There are few occasions when ceremony may not be easily dispensed with; kindness, never.

The experience of others adds to our knowledge, but not to our wisdom; that is dearer bought.

Folly is like the growth of weeds, always luxurious and spontaneous; wisdom, like flowers, requires cultivation.

A single bad habit in an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop, soileth the pure white page.

Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can be bought and sold; the former, never.

Falsehood is cowardice.

AGNES STRICKLAND (1796-1874)

Next to the virtue, the fun in this world is what we can least spare.