Year by year, more and more of the world gets disenchanted. Even the icy privacy of the arctic and antarctic circles is invaded. We have played Jack Horner with our earth, till there is never a plum left in it.

Beauty hath no true glass, except it be in the sweet privacy of loving eyes.

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.

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

Hush! Still as death, The tempest holds his breath As from a sudden will; The rain stops short, but from the eaves You see it drop, and hear it from the leaves, All is so bodingly still.

The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.