She heard the torrents meet.
Her open eyes desire the truth.
The wisdom of a thousand years
Is in them. May perpetual youth
Keep dry their light from tears.
--TENNYSON

If I have faltered more or less
In my great task of happiness;
If I have moved among my race
And shown no glorious morning face;
If beams from happy, human eyes
Have moved me not; if morning skies,
Books, and my food, and summer rain
Knocked on my sullen heart in vain--
Lord, Thy most pointed pleasure take,
And stab my spirit broad awake.
--R. L. STEVENSON

A good book is the precious life-blood of a
master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on
purpose to a life beyond life.--MILTON

The book which makes a man think the most is
the book which strikes the deepest root in his
memory and understanding.

Men at some time are masters of their fates:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
--SHAKESPEARE

No book is worth anything which is not worth
_much_; nor is it serviceable until it has been
read and re-read, and loved, and loved again;
and marked, so that you can refer to the
passages you want in it, as a soldier can seize
the weapon he needs in an armoury, or a
housewife bring the spice she needs from her
store. Bread of flour is good; but there is
bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a
good book.--RUSKIN

Goodness moves in a larger sphere than justice.
The obligations of law and equity reach only to
mankind, but kindness and beneficence should be
extended to creatures of every
species.--PLUTARCH

My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky;
So was it when my life began,
So is it now I am a man,
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die.
The child is father of the man;
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.
--WORDSWORTH

Be but yourself, be pure, be true,
And promp