Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

Stay, stay at home, my heart and rest; Home-keeping hearts are happiest.

Defeat may be victory in disguise.

Ne speaketh not; and yet there lies a conversation in his eyes.

Don Quixote thought he could have made beautiful bird-cages and toothpicks if his brain had not been so full of ideas of chivalry. Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

Let us labor for an inward stillness-- An inward stillness and an inward healing. That perfect silence where the lips and heart Are still, and we no longer entertain Our own imperfect thoughts and vain opinions, But God alone speaks to us and we wait In singleness of heart that we may know His will, and in the silence of our spirits, That we may do His will and do that only

As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain.