DAVID LIVINGSTONE, 1813.

THAT is the central thing in man, - the ability to feel and to respond to motives for action; to feel — that is, to cast one's self with all one's powers into a cause or purpose. . . this is the grand and central characteristic of T. T. Munger.

man.

THE sea, mine, battle, storm, and dangerous way ——
These, men must meet

Women, that stay at home, escape it all,

But men must suffer, if the heavens fall.

James Bartlett Wiggin.

March 20.

(PRESIDENT) CHARLES W. ELIOT.

If a man will be content with nothing but the best thought, best work, best friends, best environment, he need not trouble about avoiding the worst. The good

drives out the bad.

Ian Maclaren.

My heart

For better lore would seldom yearn,
Could I but teach the hundredth part
Of what from thee I learn.

Wordsworth.

J. S. BACH, 1685.

IN every note struck anywhere, there is an accordant note in some human brain. . . . In music, all hearts are revealed to us, and we sympathize with all hearts.

Robert Shorthouse.

IF "ignorance is bliss," I am more convinced every day that there is a great deal of happiness in this world. Proverbial Philosophy.

March 22.

OH, what a dawn of day!

How the March sun feels like May!

All is blue again

After last night's rain,

And the South dries the hawthorn-spray.

Only, my Love's away!

I'd as lief that the blue were gray.

Robert Browning.

TRY to frequent the company of your betters. In books and life that is the most wholesome society; learn to admire greatly; the great pleasure of life is that.

Thackeray.

THEN I would say to the young disciple of Truth and Beauty, who would know how to satisfy the noble impulse of his heart: . . . Give the world beneath your influence a direction towards the good, and the tranquil rhythm of time will bring its development.

WITH admiration I behold

Thy gladness unsubdued and bold;
Thy looks, thy gestures, all present
The picture of a life well spent.

Schiller.

March 24.

Wordsworth.

LET then the woman while training her mind, use for this such knowledge-getting as may help her thereafter to enlarge her views of life, such as may give to existence — "The sweetness which is of sweetness born,

The sweetness born of strength."

S. Weir Mitchell.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for any one else.

Dickens.