As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.

Let us, then, be what we are; speak what we think; and in all things keep ourselves loyal to truth.

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

It is Lucifer, The son of mystery; And since God suffers him to be, He too, is God's minister, And labors for some good By us not understood.

There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.

Then read from the treasured volume the poem of thy choice, and lend to the rhyme of the poet the beauty of thy voice.