are doing,
To play your best the game of life
And keep the prize pursuing.

Little Sermons.

Love pardons where the law condemns.

It's a poor religion that joins the church for popularity.

Both God and the Devil know that neither of them can depend on the
hypocrite.

A cup of cold water bestowed in mercy has more christian qualities than
millions of dollars given for the astonishment of men.

With the May-time Blossoms.

I.

Out with the May-time blossoms!
How sweet is the May-time song,
Far from the griefs and sorrows and
all of the cries of wrong!

II.

Out with the May-time blossoms,
where the pleasures dance the light,
And Love is a laughing fairy that
kisses the lilies white!

III.

Out with the May-time blossoms,
where the mocking-bird is king,
And the songs of the thrush in chorus
with all of the laughters ring!

IV.

Out with the May-time blossoms!
For the lilies lead the way,
And the roses blush their greetings
and Love is the Queen of May!

V.

And the breezes whisper "Welcome"
and sweet is the vale and stream!
And life with the rose and lily is
only a lover's dream!

VI.

Out with the May-time blossoms!
Let youth and her fancies play,
For Love is the light of the lily and
Love is the rose's way!

Caught on the Fly.

Even a dead lie has a poisonous sting.

Social stars are not all of the first magnitude.

Grit in men and granite in stone are similar qualities.

Good opinions are valuable only as they come from good people.

Love never yet held poison to the lips or poured vitriol in a wound.

He only is truly rich who carries the sufficiencies of life within his
soul.

The musician who would be praised by the ravens must learn to croak in
their serenades.

Before great men can grow, the proper raw material must be provided.
Pearls can't be made from putty.

My Heritage.

I am rich in the treasures of earth,
In the deeds that the fathers have done,
And for me from the moment of birth
All the gifts of the stars and the sun!

At my feet have the multitudes cast
What the ages have conquered and wrought,--
All the wonders of present and past,
All the truths that the sages have taught.

I'm the heir of the sea and the sky,
Of the storm and the sun and the star,
And the mo