INTRODUCTORY QUOTATIONS. Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.-S. T. COLERIDGE. A collection of rare thoughts is nothing less than a cabinet of intellectual gems.-WILLIAM B. SPRAGUE. It often happens that the quotations constitute the most valuable part of a book.-VICESIMUS KNOX. The art requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract.-ISAAC Disraeli. Every book is a quotation; every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines and stone-quarries, and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. -RALPH WALDO EMERSON. How many of us have been attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism. -LORD LYTTON. TEN THINGS TO DO. Do good to all. Speak evil of none. Hear and know the facts before judging. Think before speaking. Hold an angry tongue. Be kind to the distressed. Ask pardon for all wrongs. Be patient toward everybody. Stop the ears to a tale-bearer. Disbelieve most of the ill reports concerning friends, neighbors, and people in general. |