'LIBRARY) UNIVERSITVOF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO J ! *tm JW 'O * . } \ , ^ . ) . More A Compilation of helpful and beautiful thoughts from great NEW YORK DODGE PUBLISHING COMPANY 23 East 20th Street COPVHIOMTCO ia3 BY CAN AM 3. B. Vuu AND MAMT KCEHK " BORROWINGS," A SMALL VOLUME ISSUED CHRIST- MAS '89, HAVING MET WITH SO LARGE A MEASURE OF FAVOR, THE COMPILERS HAVE BEEN ENCOUR- AGED TO OFFER A SECOND VOLUME, " MORE BOR- ROWINGS," TRUSTING THAT IT WILL PROVE EQUALLY ACCEPTABLE. OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, 1891. The compilers acknowledge with thanks the courtesy of Messrs. HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COM- PANY, DR. EDWARD W. EMERSON, MRS. E. R. SILL and others, in allowing the insertion of selections from works of which they own the copyright. THOUGH THOU HAVE TIME BUT FOR A LINE, BE THAT SUBLIME. IP INSTEAD OF A GEM, OR EVEN A FLOWER, WE COULD CAST THE GIFT OF A LOVELY THOUGHT INTO THE HEART OF A FRIEND, THAT WOULD BE GIVING AS THE ANGELS MUST GIVE. George Macdtmaid* G HEAT powers and natural gifts do not bring privileges to their possessors so much as tkey bring duties. When I consider what some books have done fof the world, and what they are doing, how they keep up our hope, awaken new courage and faith, soothe pain, give an ideal life to those whose hours are cold and hard, bind together distant ages and foreign lands, create new worlds of beauty, bring down truth from heaven; I give eternal blessings for this gift, and thank God for books. James Freeman Clarke. They are never alone that are accompanied by noble thoughts. Sir Philip Sidney. Take care that the divinity within you has a credit- able charge to preside over. Marcus AurcKus. If you want your neighbor to know what the Christ spirit will do for him, let him see what it has done for you. Henry Ward Beecher. Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I cannot reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. Louisa May Alcott. " Let us fill urns with rose-leaves in our May, And hive the thrifty sweetness for December." Hearts only thrive on varied good ; And he who gathers from a host Of friendly hearts his daily food, is the best friend that we can boast. Holland. Like the bird be thou, That for a moment rests Upon the topmost bough : He feels the branch to bend And yet as sweetly sings, Knowing that he has wings. Victo I wonder did you ever count The value of one human fate ; Or sum the infinite amount Of one heart's treasure, and the weight Of life's one venture, and the whole Concentrate purpose of a soul. Adelaide A. Procter, II If a man constantly aspires, is he not elevated? Thoreau. In running their race, men of birth look back too much, which is the mark of a bad runner. Bacon. Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise. Emerson. The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, with the advantage, that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary, but is understood all the world over. Emerson. Doubt is not itself a crime. All manner of doubt, inquiry about all manner of objects, dwells in every reasonable mind. It is the mystic working of the mind on the object it is getting to know about. Carlyle. Every inmost aspiration is God's angel undefiled And in every "Oh, my father," slumbers deep a "Here, my child." Thoiuck. The rest which does us all good, and enables us to do our work well, is the rest of the heart the Sabbath of the SOUl. James Freeman Clarke. 12 USC TOR CO-DJTC. Cord, for to-morrow and its needs I do not pray, Help me from stain off sin Sust for to-day. Cet me both diligently work Und duly pray, Cct me be kind in word and deed Just for to-day. Cet me be slow to do my will, Prompt to obey, Belp me to sacrifice myself, Just for to-day. Cet me no wrong or idle word Unthinking say, Put Cbou Chv seal upon my lips Just for today. So for to-morrow and its needs T do not pray, But keep me, guide me, hold me, Cord, Just for tO'da y. Canon Farrar. Earth captive held By winter, deems him a foe That he can weld Such fetters ; deep down below Her violets, close-celled Flutter to go. Earth, when she 's free To bud and blow, And feel through every fiber of each tree The strength to grow, Will say, '"Twas Winter gave it me," And in the sunshine bless the snow. Alice Ward Bailey. 18 " Could I find a word As pure as the rose, Half hid in the wayside Grass that grows, Nor aught of itself Intends or knows ; That word is the word I would say. " Could I make a song As careless of art As the sparrow's trill That should seem a part Of my life, a blessing From my heart; That song I would sing Thee to-day." FRIENDSHIP. A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs ; The world uncertain conies and goes ; The lover rooted stays. I fancied he was fled, And, after many a year, Glowed unexhausted kindliness, Like daily sunrise there. My careful heart was free again, O friend, my bosom said, Through thee alone the sky is arched, Through thee the rose is red ; All things through thee take nobler form, And look beyond the earth, The mill-round of our fate appears A sun-path in thy worth. Me, too, thy nobleness has taught To master my despair ; The fountains of my hidden life Are through thy friendship fair. Emerson, 15 So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. Emerson. We speak with awed tenderness of our guardian angels ; but have we not all had our guiding angels, who came to us in visible form, and recognized or unknown, kept beside us on our difficult path until they had done for us all that they could? Lucy Larcom. Seek not to pour the world into thy little mould, Each as its nature is, its being must unfold ; Thou art but as a string in life's vast sounding-board, And other strings as sweet may not with thine accord. W. W. Story. oue % Chough I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not Cove, I am be= come as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal, flnd though T have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though 1 have all faith, so that T could remove mountains, and have not Cove, 1 am nothing* Hnd though T bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though 1 give my body to be burned, and have not Cove, it profiteth me nothing. -Bible. w Associate reverently, and as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts. Thorean. You have not fulfilled every duty, unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant. Charles Buxton. Reputation is in itself only a farthing candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out; but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit. Lowell. Give to a gracious message A host of tongues ; but let ill tidings tell Themselves when they be felt. Shakespeare. Good intentions are, at least, the seed of good actions ; and every one ought to sow them, and leave it to the soil and the seasons whether he or any other gather the fruit. Sir William Temple. "In bright or brighter places, wheresoever ye may roam Ye look away from earth-land and ye murmur, 'Where is home?' Homeless hearts, God is home." "If fortune, with a smiling face, Strew roses in our way, When shall we stoop to pick them up? To-day, my love, to-day. "But should she frown with face of care, And talk of coming sorrow, When shall we grieve, if grieve we must? To-morrow, oh, to-morrow." CHRISTMAS IN CALIFORNIA. Can this be Christmas sweet as May, With drowsy sun, and dreamy air, And new grass pointing out the way For flowers to follow, everywhere? Has Time grown sleepy at his post, And let the exiled summer back, Or is it her regretful ghost, Or witchcraft of the almanac? Before me, on the wide, warm bay, A million azure ripples run ; Round me the sprouting palm-shoots lay Their shining lances to the sun. A languor of deliciousness Fills all the sea-enchanted clime ; And in the blue heavens meet, and kiss, The loitering clouds of summer-time. O wondrous gift, in goodness given, Each hour anew our eyes to greet, An earth so fair so close to Heaven, 'Twas trodden by the Master's feet. Edward Rowland Sill. OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA. No process is so fatal as that which would cast all men in one mould. Every human being is in- tended to have a character of his own, to be what nc other is, to do what no other can do. Our common nature is to be unfolded in unbounded diversities. It is rich enough for infinite manifestations. It is to wear innumerable forms of beauty and glory. Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influences to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach. Channing. 20 We always weaken what we exaggerate. La Harpe. He spoils his house and throws his pains away Who, qs the sun veers, builds his windows o'er, For should he wait, the light, some time of day, Would come and sit beside him in his door. Alice Cary. What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love fixed in permanent outline. Thomas Wentworth Higgmson. No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when to-morrow's burden is added to the burden of to-day, that the weight is more than a man can bear. George Afacdonald. Efforts to be permanently useful must be uniformly joyous, a spirit all sunshine ; graceful from very glad- ness, beautiful because bright. Cariyie. Get but the truth once uttered, and 'tis like A star new-born that drops into its place, And which once circling in its placid round, Not all the tumult of the earth can shake. Lowell. FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH. Let no threat'ning ill appall thee, Trust in God what-e'er befall thee, Serve him with thy latest breath ; Be thou faithful unto death ! Men may praise thee, men may jeer thee, Ever keep in sight to cheer thee What the heavenly Master saith, Be thou faithful unto death ! Let no loss or suffring rue thee, God at last will triumph through thee, Crown thee with the victor's wreath; Be thou faithful unto death ! Chas. W. Wendte In the man whose childhood has known caresses there is always a fibre of memory that can be touched to gentle issues. George Eliot. Self-trust is the essence of heroism. Emerson. The first condition of human goodness is some- thing to love ; the second, something to reverence. George Eliot. Lied is a rough phrase ; say he fell from truth. Browning. A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Tkoreau. If we can say with Seneca, "This life is only a prelude to eternity," then we need not worry so much over the fittings and furnishings of this ante-room; and more than that, it will give dignity and purpose to the fleeting days to know they are linked with the eternal things as prelude and preparation. Minot J. Savage. Jealousy is a secret avowal of inferiority. AfasstUon. If I shoot at the sun, I may hit a star. f. T, Barnwn. The world is a school, and the business of its occu- pants, the pursuit of an education fitting them to graduate into the invisible university of God. W. R. Alger. Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself. Montaigne. Where much is given, much shall be required. There are never privileges to enjoy without corre- sponding duties to fulfil in return. Phillips Brooks. We proudly say "we are equal." In the largest sense before God we are, but in every other sense we are not. No two persons have the same gifts, the same tastes, the same habits. One must complement the other. It is a mutual life we lead in a mutual world. Caroline Hazard. Man's rank is his power to uplift. George Macdonald. 24 ^^f^HE understanding is the -vestibule of the f mind ! Uncover thy head, and enter the ^ temple of the soul ! behold the power, the beauty, and the love '. If we had nothing but understanding, how little should -we know or think or feel ! I may not reach the heights I seek, My untried strength may fail me ; Or, half-way up the mountain peak Fierce tempests may assail me ; But though my goal I never see This thought shall always dwell with I will be worthy of it. I may not triumph in success, Despite my earnest labor; I may not grasp results that bless The efforts of my neighbor. But though life's dearest joy I miss There lies a nameless strength in this I will be worthy of it Etta Wheeler Wilcox. How fitting to have every day, in a vase of water on your table, the wild flowers of the season which are just blossoming. Can any house be said to be fur- nished without them? Shall we be so forward to pluck the fruits of Nature and neglect her flowers ? These are surely her finest influences. So may the season suggest the thoughts it is fitted to suggest. Let me know what pictures Nature is painting, what poetry she is writing, what ode composing now, Thoreau. DAFFODILS. I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay : Ten thousand saw I, at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced, but they Outdid the sparkling waves in glee ; A poet could not but be gay In such a jocund company : I gazed and gazed but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought. For oft, when on my couch I lie, In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude ; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils. Wordsworth I hold it the duty of one who is gifted, And royally dowered in all men's sight, To know no rest till his life is lifted Fully up to the great gift's height. Great gifts should be worn like a crown befitting, And not like gems on a beggar's hands ; And the toil must be constant and unremitting That lifts up the king to the crown's demands. Ella Wheeltr Wilcox I am one who holds a treasure And a gem of wondrous cost ; But I mar my heart's deep pleasure With the fear it may be lost. Oh for some heavenly token, By which I may be sure The vase shall not be broken, Dispersed the essence pure. Then spoke the angel of mothers To me in gentle tone, " Be kind to the children of others, And thus deserve thine own." Julia Ward Howe. Children have more need of models than of critics. Joubert. That which is not for the interest of the whole swarm is not for the interest of a single bee. Marcus Aurelius. After every storm the sun will smile, for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer. William R. Alger. At last to be identified ! At last, the lamps upon thy side, The rest of life to see ! Past midnight, past the morning star ! Past sunrise ! Ah ! what leagues there are Between our feet and day ! ~Emily Dickinson. You will find it less easy to uproot faults than to choke them by gaining virtues. Do not think of your faults ; still less of others' faults. In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; rejoice in it; as you can, try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes. Why make we moan For loss that doth enrich us yet With upward yearnings of regret. Lowell. Oh world, as God has made it! All is beauty : And knowing this, is love, and love is duty. Browning. Age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress ; And, as the evening twilight fades away, The stars are seen by night, invisible by day. Longfellow. To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to ex- clude yourself from the true enjoyment of it. Thoreau. Belief in compensation, or, that nothing is got for nothing, characterizes all valuable minds. Emerson. Heed how thou livest. Do no act by day Which from the night shall drive thy peace away. In months of sun so live that months of rain Shall still be happy. (Translation.) SO AT CHRYSTEMASSr TYDK. "Two sorrie Thynges there be Ay, three ; A Neste from which ye Fledglings have been taken, A Lambe forsaken, A redde leaf from ye Wilde Rose rudely shaken. "Of gladde Thynges there be more Ay, four; A Larke above ye olde Neste blythely singing, A Wilde Rose clinging In safety to a Rock : a Shepherde bringing A Lambe, found, in his armes, and Chrystemasse Bells .-^ringing." I know there are voices I do not hear, And colors I do not see ; I know that the world has numberless doors Of which I have not the key. Minot J. Savage. Be great in act, as you have been in thought. Shakespeare. What had the life of Jesus been to us, if we had only the records of his sermons, without the record of his going about doing good. Bishop Simpson. When I say that it was March, I need add nothing about the weather. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward. Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend your- self on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it. Emerson, "Medicine for the soul." Inscription over the door of the Library at Thebes. 32 $ ships meet at sea for a moment, and then part upon tbe deep; so men meet in this world* Jlnd I think we should cross no man's path without hailing m, and if he needs, giving him help. f$. Ul. Beecher. The virtue which we appreciate, we to some extent appropriate. Thoreau. "He who is always inquiring what people will say, will never give them opportunity to say anything great about him." A little learning is not a dangerous thing to onr who does not mistake it for a great deal. Blanco White. We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility Ot it. Phillips Brooks Never does a man portray his own character more vividly than in his manner of portraying another's. Richter. The nimble lie Is like the second-hand upon a clock ; We see it fly, while the hour-hand of truth Seems to stand still ; and yet it moves unseen, And wins at last, for the clock will not strike Till it has reached the goal. Longfellow. 38 I know of no more encouraging fact than the un- questionable ability of a man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor. It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. Thoreau. What we like determines what we are, and is the sign of what we are ; and to teach taste is inevitably to form character. Ruskin. A noble deed is a step toward God. /. G. Holland. A small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. Byron. The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues. Marcus Avrelius. Friends those relations that one makes for one's Self. Deschamps. To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin. Byron. And where we love is home, Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. The chain may lengthen, but it never parts. Holmes. Every day brings a ship, Every ship brings a word ; Well for those who have no fear, Looking seaward well assured That the word the vessel brings Is the word they wish to hear. Emtrson. Would 'st shape a noble life? Then cast No backward glances toward the past, And though somewhat be lost and gone, Yet do thou act as one new-born ; What each day needs, that shalt thou ask, Each day will set its proper task. Goethe. THE FOOL'S PRAYER. The royal feast was done ; the King Sought some new sport to banish care, And to his jester cried : "Sir Fool, Kneel now, and make for us a prayer!' The jester doffed his cap and bells, And stood the mocking court before ; They could not see the bitter smile Behind the painted grin he wore. He bowed his head, and bent his knee Upon the monarch's silken stool ; His pleading voice arose : "O Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool ! "No pity, Lord, could change the heart From red with wrong to white as wool j The rod must heal the sin : but Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool ! "'Tis not by guilt the onward sweep Of truth and right, O Lord, we stay; 'Tis by our follies that so long We hold the earth from heaven away. 37 "These clumsy feet, still in the mire, Go crushing blossoms without end ; These hard, well-meaning hands we thrust Among the heart-strings of a friend. "The ill-timed truth we might have kept Who knows how sharp it pierced and stung? The word we had not sense to say Who knows how grandly it had rung? "Our faults no tenderness should ask, The chastening stripes must cleanse them all ; But for our blunders oh, in shame Before the eyes of heaven we fall. "Earth bears no balsam for mistakes; Men crown the knave, and scourge the tool That did his will ; but, Thou, O Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool !" The room was hushed ; in silence rose The King, and sought his gardens cool, And walked apart, and murmured low, "Be merciful to me, a fool ! " Edward Rowland Sill. 38 Beware of despairing about yourself. St. Augustine. The exaltation of talent, as it is called, above vir- tue and religion, is the curse of the age. channing. Live pure, speak truth, right wrong, Else wherefore born? Tennyson.. No wind serves him who has no destined port. Montaigne. Who is dumb? He who does not know how to say kind things at the proper time. Hindu. "If you would have a happy family life, remember two things, in matters of principle, stand like a rock ; in matters of taste, swim with the current." If you were born to honor, show it now : If put upon you, make the judgment good That thought you worthy Of it. Shakespeare. As in the silence of night the ear catches the least sound, so in the solitude of reflection the mind detects soft and delicate strains of thought, unheard in the bustle of the crowd. Prentice Mulford. Our high respect for a well read man is praise enough for literature. Emerson. Let nothing disturb thee; Nothing affright thee ; All things are passing ; God never changeth. Longfellow. (Santa Teresa's Book-Mark.) The only hope of preserving what is best, lies in the practice of an immense charity, a wide tolerance, a sincere respect for opinions that are not ours. Hamerton. "They that on glorious ancestry enlarge Produce their debt instead of their discharge." 40 tbout distinction, with= out calculation, witb= out procrastination, love* Ca visb it upon the poor, where it is very easy ; c$= pecially upon the rich who often need it most; most of all upon our equals, where it is very difficult, and for whom perhaps we each do least of all. ficnry Drummond. EACH AND ALL. Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown Of thee from the hill-top looking down ; The heifer that lows in the upland farm, Far-heard, lows not thine ear to charm ; The sexton, tolling his bell at noon, Deems not that great Napoleon Stops his horse, and lists with delight, Whilst his files sweep round yon Alpine height ; Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one ; Nothing is fair or good alone. Home is everywhere to thee, Who canst thine own dwelling be. Joseph Beaumont. In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown. Emerson. Our to-days make our to-morrows, and our present lives determine the grade on which we must enter any next life. MinotJ. Savage. What man is there whom contact with a great soul will not exalt ? A drop of water upon the petal of a lotus glistens with the splendors of the pearl. Hindu, Of nothing can we be more sure than this : that, if we cannot sanctify our present lot, we could sanctify no Other. Martineau. "To see the spider sit and spin Shut with her web of silver in, You'd never, never, never guess The way she gets her dinner." 42 Some days must needs be full of gloom, Yet must we use them as we may ; Talk less about the years to come, Give love, and labor more, to-day. What our hand findeth, do with might ; Ask less for help, but stand or fall, Each one of us in life's great fight, As if himself and God were all. Alice Cary. Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy : for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings. Therefore let the moon Shine on thee in thy solitary walk ; And let the misty mountain winds be free To blow against thee ; and, in after years, When these wild ecstacies shall be matured Into a sober pleasure, when thy mind Shall be a mansion for all lovely forms, Thy memory be as a dwelling place For all sweet sounds and harmonies ; oh ! then, If solitude, or fear, or pain, or grief, Should be thy portion, with what healing thoughts Of tender joy wilt thou remember me, And these my exhortations ! Wordsworth. All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. Emerson. The most dangerous flattery is the inferiority of those who surround US. Madame Swetchine. Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet. Margaret Fullir. One adequate support For the calamities of mortal life Exists, one only : an assured belief That the procession of our fate, howe'er Sad or disturbed, is ordered by a Being Of infinite benevolence and power ; Whose everlasting purposes embrace All accidents, converting them to good. Wordsworth. Let the old life be covered by the new, The old past, so full of sad mistakes ; Let it be wholly hidden from the view By deeds as white and silent as snowflakes, Ere the earth life melt in the eternal spring. Let the white mantle of repentance fling Soft drapery about it, fold on fold, Even as the new snow covers up the old. Louise Chandler Moulton. A dewdrop, falling on the wild sea wave, Exclaimed in fear, " I perish in this grave ! " But, in a shell received, that drop of dew Unto a pearl of marvelous beauty grew, And happy now the grace did magnify Which thrust it forth, as it had feared, to die : Until again, "I perish quite," it said, Torn by a rude diver from its ocean bed. Oh, unbelieving ! so it came to gleam Chief jewel in a monarch's diadem. Persian Trench, How soon a smile of God can change the world ! How we are made for happiness ! Browning. Discharge aright The simple dues with which each day is rife, Yea, with thy might. Ere perfect scheme of action thou devise Will life be fled. -Schiller. Earth seemed more sweet to live upon More full of love, because of him. Lowell. Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. Shakespeare. A man, he seems, of cheerful yesterdays, And confident to-morrows. Wordsworth. Get work : Be sure it is better than what you work to get. E. B. Browning. Culture implies all which gives a mind possession of its powers. Emerson. The flighty purpose never is o'ertook Unless the deed go with it. Shakespeare. Eyes are not so common as poets would think, or poets would be plentier. Lowell. Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected. John Locke. Taking the first footstep with a good thought, the second with a good word, and the third with a good deed, I entered Paradise. Zoroaster. Life is too short to waste, 'Twill soon be dark ; Up ! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark! Emerson, s not quitting e busy career; cst is the fitting Of self to its sphere: Cis loving and serving Che highest and best; is onward unswerving, find that is true rest S. Dwiqht. The year's at the spring, And day's at the morn ; Morning's at seven ; The hill-side's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing ; The snail's on the thorn ; God's in his heaven All's right with the world. Browning. 'Ask God to give thee skill For comfort's art, That thou may'st consecrated be, And set apart Unto a life of sympathy ! For heavy is the weight of ill For every heart, And comforters are needed much Of Christ-like touch." The essence of intellectual living does not reside in extent of science or in perfection of expression, but in a constant preference for higher thoughts over lower thoughts. Here is the true secret of that fascin- ation which belongs to intellectual pursuits, that they reveal to us a little more, and yet a little more, of the eternal order of the Universe, establishing us so firmly in what is known, that we acquire an unshakable con- fidence in the laws which govern what is not, and never can be, known. Philip Gilbert Hamerton. 50 When we consider we are bound to be serviceable to mankind, and bear with their faults, we shall per- ceive there is a common tie of nature and relation between US. Marcus Aurelius. One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilder ness of warning. Lowell. He who loves best his fellow-man Is loving God the holiest way he can. Alice Cary. Better be cold than assume to feel. In truth, nothing is so cold as an assumed, noisy enthusiasm. Its best emblem is the northern blast of winter, which freezes as it roars. charming. Ah, the key of our life, that passes all wards, opens all locks, Is not I will, but I must, I must, I must, and I do it. A. H. Clough. " To speak wisely may not always be easy but not to speak ill requires only silence." 51 'Tis looking downward makes one dizzy. Browning. Even in ordinary life, contact with nobler natures arouses the feeling of unused power and quickens the consciousness of responsibility. Canon Westcott, Every brave heart must treat society as a child, and never allow it to dictate. Emerson. Adversity is like the period of the former and latter rains, cold, comfortless, unfriendly to man and to animal ; yet from thence come the flower and the fruit, the date, the rose, and the pomegranate. Sir Walter Scott. Machinery just meant To give thy soul its bent, Try thee and turn thee forth sufficiently impressed . . Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids not sit nor stand, but go ! Be our joys three parts pain ! Strive and hold cheap the strain ; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never Grudge the throe. Browning 52 If there is any person for whom you feel dislike, that is the person of whom you ought never to speak. X. Cecil. There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy around us. Emerson. Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his Work, body and SOUl. Charles Buxton. It is not written, blessed is he that feedeih the poor, but he that considereth the poor. A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money. Ruskin. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small ; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all. Coleridge. The finest qualities of our natures, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Thoreau. MEMORY. My mind lets go a thousand things, Like dates of wars and deaths of kings. And yet recalls the very hour 'Twas noon by yonder village tower, And on the last blue noon of May The wind came briskly up this way, Crisping the brook beside the road, Then pausing here, set down its load Of pine scents, and shook listlessly Two petals from that wild-rose tree. Thomas Bailey Aldrich. 54 God will not mock the hope he giveth, No love he prompts shall vainly plead. Whit tier. The reward of one duty is the power to fulfil another. George Eliot. Life is grand, and so are its environments of Past and Future. Would the face of nature be so serene and beautiful if man's destiny were not equally so? TTioreau. Defer not charities till death ; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doeth so, is rather liberal of another man's than his own. Bacon. Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never Come. Lowell. Just because there's fallen A snow-flake on his forehead, He must go and fancy Tis winter all the year ? T.B. Aidrich. I expect to pass through this life but once. II therefore there is any kindness I can show, or any good I can do to any fellow-being, let me do it now, let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. Mrs. A. B. Htgeman. Build a little fence of trust around to-day, Fill the space with loving deeds and therein stay ; Look not through the sheltering bars upon to- morrow, God will help thee bear what comes of joy, or sorrow. Mary Frances Butts. T there be some weaker one. Give me strength to help him on ; Tf a blinder soul there be, Cet me stride him nearer Chee ; make my mortal dreams come true Olith the work 1 fain would do ; Clothe with life the weak intent, Cet me be the thing T meant ; Cet me find in thv employ, Peace that dearer is than joy t Out off self to love be led, Tin A to heaven acclimated. Until all things sweet and good Seem my natural habitude. John <;. WlriliiiT. Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant? Thoreau. If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful. Lowell. Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues. Bishop Hail. I think that we should treat our minds as innocent and ingenuous children whose guardians we are, be careful what objects and what subjects we thrust on their attention. Thoreau. Believe me, every man has his secret sorrows, which the world knows not ; and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad. Longfellow. In a small chamber friendless and unseen, Toiled o'er his types one poor unlearned young man; The place was dark, ungarnitured and mean ; Yet there the freedom of a race began. Lowell. (Said of Gaimon.) Let us be such as help the life of the future. Zoroaster. The rapidity with which the human mind lends itself to the standard around it gives us the most pertinent warning as to the company we keep. Lowell. "Use Time well, and you will get from his hand more than he will take from yours." A good book, whether a novel or not, is one that leaves you farther on than when you took it up. If, when you drop it, it drops you down in the same old spot, with no finer outlook, no cleared vision, no stimulated desires for that which is better and higher, it is in no sense a good book. Anna Warner. The fox condemns the trap, not himself. William Blake. This is my youth, its hopes and dreams, How strange and shadowy it all seems, After these many years ! Turning the pages idly, so, I look with smiles upon the woe, Upon the joy with tears ! Aldrich, 58 Revelation of God to man must of necessity partake of the imperfections of the medium through which it comes. As pure water from heaven, falling upon and filtering through earth, must gather impurities in its course, differing in amount and kind according to the earth, even so the pure divine truth, filtering through man's mind, must take imperfections characteristic of the man and of the age. Such filtrate must be redis- tilled in the alembic of reason to separate the divine truth from the earthy impurities. Joseph Le Contf. BP Never lose an opportunity to see anything beautiful. Beauty is God's hand- writing. BEAUTY. Then I said, "I covet truth ; Beauty is unripe childhood's cheat ; I leave it behind with the games of youth :" As I spoke, beneath my feet The ground-pine curled its pretty wreath, Running over the club-moss burrs ; I inhaled the violet's breath ; Around me stood the oaks and firs ; Pine-cones and acorns lay on the ground ; Over me soared the eternal sky, Full of light and of deity ; Again I saw, again I heard, The rolling river, the morning bird ; Beauty through my senses stole ; I yielded myself to the perfect whole. Emerson. A consideration of petty circumstances is the tomb of great things. Voltaire. It is true that a little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. Bacon. Life means, be sure, Both heart and head, both active, both complete, And both in earnest. E. B. Browning. When we climb to heaven 'tis on the rounds of love to men. JVhittier. The tenderness that apologizes for wickedness is the worst form of cruelty. Channing. They that can walk at will where the works of the Lord are reveal' d Little guess what joy can be got from a cowslip out of the field; Flowers to these "spirits in prison" are all they can know of the spring, They freshen and sweeten the wards like the waft of an angel's wing. Tennyson. (In the Children's Hospital.) One learns more metaphysics from a single tempta tion than from all the philosophers. Lowell. 'Tis not what a man does which exalts him; but what a man would do ! Browning. As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. Thoreau. What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other? George Eliot. Even when the bird walks we see that he has wings. Lemoine. Death knits as well as parts. Lowell. Our times are in His hand, Who saith, "A whole I planned," Youth shows but half; trust God, see all, nor be afraid. Browning. " The lie of an action is greater than the lie of a word." S3 Ah, why should we wear black for the guests of God ? Ruskin. The blessed work of helping the world forward, happily does not wait to be done by perfect men. George Eliot. Silk comes from a worm, gold from rock, the lotus from mud. . . . He who has superior qualities be- comes distinguished through their development and expression. What signifies noble birth ? Hindu. It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place, as if you meant to spend your life there, never omit- ting an opportunity of doing a kindness, or speaking a true word, or making a friend. Ruskin. I would say to all : use your gentlest voice at home. Watch it day by day as a pearl of great price ; for it will be worth more to you in days to come than the best pearl hid in the sea. A kind voice is joy, like a lark's song, to a hearth at home. Train it to sweet tones now and it will keep in tune through life. li)iu Burritt. 64 ^ educate the heart, one must be willing f to go out of himself and to come into "^ loving contact "with others. 44 " Make of your grief a pedestal on which to stand." And for the things I see I trust the things to be. whittier. Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit. Epictetus. Receive your thoughts as guests, but treat your desires as children. Chinese. The profit of a book is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it. Emerson. The cry of the age is more for fraternity than for charity. If one exists the other will follow, or better Still, will not be needed. Henry D. Chafnn. I believe that the mind can be profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be tinged with triviality. Thoreau. There is only one real failure possible; and that is, not to be true to the best one knows. Canon Farrar. No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet. Heget. When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and the rustle of the corn. Emerson. The truest self-respect is not to think of self. Henry Ward Beecher. Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt. Shakespeare. Do not talk about the lantern that holds the lamp; but make haste, uncover the light, and let it shine. George Macdonald. LIGHT. All love thee, but none can express thee, Or pierce to the core of thy heart ; The poet in dreams may half guess thee, And faintly divine what thou art : But the song that would sing thee is broken, The lips quiver once and are still, And thy mystery, ever unspoken, Is left for the future to fill. Anne Sheldon Coombs. 87 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. Horace Mann. Common sense, in an uncommon degree, is what the world calls wisdom. Coleridge. The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. Holmes. What an antiseptic is a pure life ! Lowell. It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself. Charles Dickens. When the sun rises, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying, "Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty." William Blake. The greatest thing a man can do for his Heavenly Father is to be kind to some of his other children. Henry Drummond. Nothing is so strong as gentleness, Nothing so gentle as real strength. St. Francis de Salts. Science keeps down the weed of superstition, not by logic, but by rendering the mental soil unfit for its cultivation. Tyndaii. The beauty of work depends upon the way we meet it, whether we arm ourselves each morning to attack it as an enemy that must be vanquished before night comes, or whether we open our eyes with the sunrise to welcome it as an approaching friend who will keep us delightful company all day, and who will make us feel at evening that the day was well worth its fatigues. Lucy Larcom. "For no one doth know What he can bestow, What light, strength, and beauty may after him go ; Thus onward we move, And, save God above, None guesseth how wondrous the journey may prove." Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast. Shakespeare, The moment a man can really do his work, he becomes speechless about it. All words become idle to him all theories. Ruskin. What if it does look likely to rain, it is fine now ! William Smith. God is ever drawing like toward like, and making them acquainted. Homer. If I had but two loaves of bread, I would sell one and buy hyacinths, for they would feed my soul. Koran. I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the corners. Goethe's Mother. The prosperity of a nation depends upon the health and morals of its citizens, and the health and morals of a people depend mainly upon the food they eat and the houses they live in. The time has come when we must have a science of domestic economy, and it must be worked out in the homes of our educated women. A knowledge of the elements of chemistry and physics must be applied to the daily living. Ellen H. Richards. 70 I pray you, O excellent wife, not to cumber your- self and me to get a rich dinner for this man or this woman who has alighted at our gate, nor a bedcham- ber made ready at too great a cost. These things, if they are curious in, they can get for a dollar at any village. But let this stranger, if he will, in your looks, in your accent and behavior, read your heart and earnestness, your thought and will, which he cannot buy at any price in any village or city, and which he may well travel fifty miles and dine sparely and sleep hard in order to behold. Certainly, let the board be spread and let the bed be dressed for the traveler ; but let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in these things. Honor to the house where they are simple to the verge of hardship, so that there the intellect is *wake and reads the laws of the universe. \r>\ <>. 71 Is he dead whose glorious mind Lifts thine on high ? To live in hearts we leave behind Is not to die. Campbell Three things return not, e'en for prayers and tears- The' arrow which the archer shoots at will ; The spoken word, keen-edged and sharp to sting ; The opportunity left unimproved. If thou would'st speak a word of loving cheer, Oh, speak it now.