Faith in God, faith in man, faith in work: this is the short formula in which we may sum up the teachings of the founders of New England,--a creed ample enough for this life and the next.

Who is it needs such flawless shafts as fate? What archer of his arrows is so choice, or hits the white so surely?

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us; The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, The priest hath his fee who comes and shrives us, We bargain for the graves we lie in; Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold... 'T is heaven alone that is given away, 'T is only God may be had for the asking; There is no price set on the lavish summer, And June may be had by the poorest comer.

It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity.

What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticized for us!

There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.