Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave?

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

Like streams that keep a summer mind Snow-hid in Jenooary.

Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.