To have greatly dreamed precludes low ends.

Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives.

Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide.

It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.

He gives us the very quintessence of perception,-the clearly crystalized precipitation of all that is most precious in the ferment of impression after the impertinent and obtrusive particulars have evaporated from the memory.

Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.

Worshippers of light ancestral make the present light a crime.