How fast has brother followed brother, From sunshine to the sunless land!

Milton, thou should'st be living at this hour.

To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

I've watched you now a full half-hour; Self-poised upon that yellow flower And, little Butterfly! Indeed I know not if you sleep or feed. How motionless! - not frozen seas More motionless! and then What joy awaits you, when the breeze Hath found you out among the trees, And calls you forth again!

Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-caluculated less or more.

But how can he expect that others should Build for him, sow for him, and at his call Love him, who for himself will take no heed at all?