flower is
insignificant in itself, if you will; but reflect upon it for
however short a while and it becomes gigantic.

--Maurice Maeterlinck.

O world, as God has made it! All is beauty:
And knowing this, is love, and love is duty:
What further may be sought for or declared?

--Robert Browning.

Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not,
neither do they spin: yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all
his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

--Matthew 6. 28, 29.

Creator of all, I do know that if I may hold myself close enough, I
can hear restful music through the breeze, and find secrets in the
flowers and leaves. I rejoice that thou hast made the woods and rivers
that thou dost love, so I too might possess them, and not be a tenant
of them only. May I look and study deeper the things which bring me
closer to thee. Amen.

MARCH TWELFTH

Cesare Borgia killed 1507.

Bishop Buckley born 1684.

Simon Newcomb born 1835.

Among the happiest and proudest possessions of a man is his
character. It is a wreath, it is a bank in itself. What is the
essence and life of character? Principle, integrity, independence.

--Bulwer Lytton.

No great genius was ever without some mixture of madness, nor can
anything grand or superior to the voice of common mortals be spoken
except by the agitated soul.

--Aristotle.

Handsome is that handsome does.

--Oliver Goldsmith.

Since thou hast been precious in my sight, and honorable, and I have
loved thee; therefore will I give men in thy stead, and peoples
instead of thy life.

--Isaiah 43. 4.

Lord God, forbid that I should try to supplant character with manners
and worldly goods. May I remember that thou seest me, and knowest me,
and I need no shield from thee. Help me that I may be found acceptable
while thou dost search me to the depths of the soul. Amen.

MARCH THIRTEENTH

Joseph Priestley born 1733.

Esther Johnson (Stella) born 1681.

Regina Maria Roche died 1845.

If stores of dry and learned lore we gain
We keep them in the memory of the brain;
Names, things, and facts--whate'er we knowledge call,
There is the common ledger for them all;
And images on this cold surface traced
Make slight impressions and are soon effaced.
But we've a page more glowing and more bright
On which our