help them to comprehend and feel the loveliness and grandeur which in vain courted their notice!

But every husbandman is living in sight of the works of a divine Artist, and how much would his existence be elevated, could he see the glory which shines forth in their forms, hues, proportions, and moral expression!

W. E. Channing, R. I., 1780-1842.

66. Eternity.

The flowers fade, the heart withers, man grows old and dies, the world lies down in the sepulchre of ages, but time writes no wrinkles on the brow of eternity. Bishop Heber, England, 1783-1826.

67. The Present Hour.

One of the illusions is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

R. W. Emerson, Mass., 1803—.

68. Cheerfulness.

A cheerful temper, joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured. It will lighten sickness, poverty, and affliction, convert ignorance into an amiable simplicity, and render deformity itself agreeable.

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Jos. Addison, England, 1672-1719.

69. Family Courtesy.

Family intimacy should never make brothers and sisters forget to be polite and sympathizing to each other. Those who contract thoughtless and rude habits toward members of their own family will be rude and thoughtless to all the world. But let the family intercourse be true, tender, and affectionate, and the manners of all uniformly gentle and consid. erate, and the members of the family, thus trained, will carry into the world and society the habits of their childhood. They will require in their associates similar qualities; they will not be satisfied without mutual esteem and the cultivation of the best affections; and their own character will be sustained by that faith in goodness which belongs to a mind exercised in pure and high thoughts.

Silvio Pellico, Italy, 1789-1854.

70. Death.

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When death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he sets the panting spirit free, a hundred virtues rise, in shapes of mercy, charity, and love, to walk the world and bless it. every tear that sorrowing mortals shed on such green graves, some good is born, some gentler nature comes. In the destroyer's steps there spring up bright creations that defy his power, and his dark path becomes a way of light to heaven.

Chas. Dickens, England, 1812-1870.

71. The True Man.

No man can safely go abroad that does not love to stay at home; no man can safely speak that does not willingly hold his tongue; no man can safely govern that would not cheerfully become subject; no man can safely command that has not truly learned to obey; and no man can safely rejoice but he that has the testimony of a good conscience.

Thos. à Kempis, Germany, 1380-1471.

72. Submission.

If God send thee a cross, take it up willingly and follow Him. Use it wisely, lest it be unprofitable. Bear it patiently, lest it be intolerable. If it be light, slight it not. If it be heavy, murmur not. After the cross is the crown.

F. Quarles, England, 1592-1644.

73. True Greatness.

It is by what we ourselves have done, and not what others have done for us, that we shall be remembered by after ages. It is thought that has aroused intellect from its slumbers, which has given "luster to virtue, and dignity to truth," or by those examples which have inflamed the soul with the love of goodness, and not by means of sculptured marble, that we hold communion with Shakspeare and Milton, with John. son and Burke, with Howard and Wilberforce.

Francis Wayland, New York, 1796-1865.

74. The Humming Bird.

Where is the person who, on observing this glittering fragment of the rainbow, would not pause, admire, and instantly turn his mind with reverence towards the Almighty Creator, the wonders of whose hand we, at every step, discover, and of whose sublime conceptions we everywhere observe the manifestations in His admirable system of creation.

J. J. Audubon, Louisiana, 1780-1851.

75. A New England Summer. Take the New England climate, in summer; you would think the world was coming to an end. Certain recent heresies on that subject may have had a natural origin there. Cold to-day; hot to-morrow; mercury at 80 degrees in the morning, with wind at southwest; and in three hours more a sea-turn, wind at east, a thick fog from the very bottom of the ocean, and a fall of forty degrees of Fahrenheit; now so dry as to kill all the beans in New Hampshire; then floods, carrying off the bridges of the Penobscot and Connecticut; snow in Portsmouth in July; and the next day a man and a yoke of oxen killed by lightning in Rhode Island. One would think the world was twenty times coming to an end! But I don't know how it is; we go along; the early and the latter rain falls, each in its season; seed-time and harvest do not fail; the sixty days of hot, corn weather are pretty

sure to be measured out to us. The Indian Summer, with its bland southwest, and mitigated sunshine, brings all up; and on the 25th of November, or thereabouts, being Thursday, millions of grateful people, in meeting-houses or around the family board, give thanks for a year of health, plenty, and happiness. Rufus Choate, Mass., 1799-1869.

76. General Intelligence.

When the means of education everywhere throughout our country shall be as free as the air we breathe; when every family shall have its Bible; then, and not till then, shall we exert our proper influence on the cause of man; then, and not till then, shall we be prepared to stand forth between the oppressor and the oppressed, and say to the proud wave of domination: "Thus far shalt thou come, and no farther."

Francis Wayland, New York, 1796-1865.

77. The True Monument.

No arch nor column in courtly English, or courtlie Latin, sets forth the deeds and the worth of the Father of his country; he needs them not; the unwritten benediction of millions cover all the walls.* No gilded dome swells from the lowly roof to catch the morning or evening beam; but the love and gratitude of united America settle upon it in one eternal sunshine.

Edw. Everett, Mass., 1794-1865.

*At Mt. Vernon.