JOHN MILTON, 1608.

THERE are no mute, inglorious Miltons in the field of letters; every one gets his due.

Richardson.

ONLY add

Deeds to thy knowledge answerable; add faith,
Add virtue, patience, temperance; add love,

By name to come called charity, the soul

Of all the rest.

He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter, ought in all things himself to be a true poem. Milton.

December 10.

. . . AT noonday, in the bustle of man's work-time Greet the unseen with a cheer!

Bid him forward, breast and back as either should be, "Strive and thrive!"

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Cry speed,

There as here!"

fight on, fare ever

Robert Browning.

THE Social, sympathetic, altruistic feelings are not forced to bear all the mighty burden of human advancement. Social regeneration is not allowed balance personal good.

to over

George Harris,

ONE must always have an empty and open corner in one's head, so that one may make room for the opinions of one's friends, and lodge them there in passing. . . Let us have hospitable hearts and minds.

Joubert.

You jest mind and remember and allers see what there is in a providence afore you quarrel with it.

"Sam Lawson.”

December 12..

HEINRICH HEINE, 1797.

A LOVELY flower thou seemest,
So tender, sweet, and true;
And as I gaze, steals o'er me
A sadness, strange and new.
Upon thy peaceful forehead

I'd lay my hands in prayer,
That God may ever keep thee
As tender, true, and fair.

Heine.

FEW delights can equal the mere presence of one whom

we trust utterly.

George Macdonald.

PHILLIPS BROOKS, 1835.

WEARING the white flower of a blameless life.

Tennyson.

His eloquence had not the character and fashion of forensic efforts or parliamentary debates. It ascended above these.... Whenever he spoke or wrote, it was with the loftiest aims; not for display; not to advancẻ himself; not for any selfish purpose; not in human strife; not in any question of pecuniary advantage; but in the service of religion and benevolence, to promote the love of God and man.

Charles Sumner.

December 14.

IF thou art blest,

Then let the sunshine of thy gladness rest
On the dark edges of each cloud that lies
Black in thy brother's skies.

If thou art sad,

Still be thou in thy brother's gladness glad.

A. E. Hamilton.

HER presence at once made a place such as one would desire to be in, “A calm, beautiful, infinite woman."

George Macdonald.