--W. W. CAMPBELL

Never to the bow that bends
Comes the arrow that it sends;
Never comes the chance that passed:
That one moment was its last.

Oh, fear not in a world like this,
And thou shalt know ere long,
Know how sublime a thing it is
To suffer and be strong.
--H. W. LONGFELLOW

Sow an act, and reap a tendency; sow a
tendency, and reap a habit; sow a habit, and
reap a character; sow a character, and reap a
destiny.--THACKERAY

The gifts that we have, heaven lends for right
using, and not for ignoring, and not for
abusing.

It is not what he has, nor even what he does,
which directly expresses the worth of a man,
but what he is.--_Journal_--AMIEL

My good blade carves the casques of men,
My tough lance thrusteth sure,
My strength is as the strength of ten,
Because my heart is pure.
--TENNYSON

True worth is in _being_, not _seeming_,--
In doing each day that goes by
Some little good--not in the dreaming
Of great things to do by and by.

No work which God sets a man to do--no work to
which God has specially adapted a man's
powers--can properly be called either menial or
mean.--CARLYLE

Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again;
Th' eternal years of God are hers;
But Error, wounded, writhes in pain,
And dies among his worshippers.
--BRYANT

To thine own self be true;
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou can'st not then be false to any man.
--SHAKESPEARE

No life
Can be pure in its purpose or strong in its strife
And all life not be purer and stronger thereby.
--LYTTON

Knowledge and wisdom far from being one, have
ofttimes no connection. Knowledge is proud that
he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that
he knows no more.--COWPER

Wish not to taste what doth not to thee fall;
Do well thyself, before thou striv'st to lead,
And truth shall thee