The way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old; His withered cheek, and tresses gray, Seemed to have know a better day.

I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice

A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.

Whose lenient sorrows find relief, whose joys are chastened by their grief.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.

The time which passes over our heads so imperceptibly makes the same gradual change in habits, manners and character, as in personal appearance. At the revolution of every five years we find ourselves another and yet the same;--there is a change of views, and no less of the light in which we regard them; a change of motives as well as of action.