When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.

There are those to whom a sense of religion has come in storm and tempest; there are those whom it has summoned amid scenes of revelry and idle vanity; there are those, too, who have heard its "still small voice" amid rural leisure and placid retirement. But perhaps the knowledge which causeth not to err is most frequently impressed upon the mind during the season of affliction.

In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster.

"Charge, Chester, charge! on, Stanley, on!" Were the last words of Marmion.

A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.

I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.

Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth.