The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.

Eyes bright, with many tears, behind them.

Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading; to read faithfully, and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you have a real interest in,--a real, not an imaginary,--and which you find to be really fit for what you are engaged in.

Considering the multitude of mortals that handle the pen in these days, and can mostly spell, and write without glaring violations of grammar, the question naturally arises: How is it, then, that no work proceeds from them, bearing any stamp of authenticity and permanence; of worth for more than one day?

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Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness.