THE first motive which ought to impel us to study is the desire to augment the excellence of our nature, and to render an intelligent being yet more intelligent.

Montesquieu.

FOR him was levere have at his beddes heed

Twenty bokes, clad in blak or reed

Of Aristotle and his philosophye,

Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrye.

Chaucer.

October 12.

COLUMBUS DISCOVERED AMERICA, 1492.

FROM his adventurous prime

He dreamed the dream sublime:
Over his wandering youth

It hung, a beckoning star.

At last the vision fled,

And left him in its stead

The scarce sublimer truth,

The world he found afar.

William Watson.

"to

I FEEL that in America you have the stamp of the “

be."

Lady Henry Somerset.

WHAT is useful forms but a part of the important. Fully to possess, to command, and rule an object, we must first study it for its own sake.

Goethe.

EVERY man truly lives so long as he acts his nature, or in some way makes good the faculties of himself.

Sir Thomas Browne.

O FRIENDSHIP! of all things the

Most rare, and therefore most rare, because most
Excellent.

October 14.

WILLIAM PENN, 1644.

Lilly.

THERE are many people in the world who don't know what they really are till circumstances show them. . . If the pepper-caster could know what it really was, it would always be sneezing its head off.

Jean Ingelow.

I HAVE never seen great possessions excite to great alacrity. Usually they enfeeble the sympathies, and often overlie and smother them.

Landor.

VERILY now is our season of seed,
Now is our Autumn; and Earth discerns

Them that have served her, in them that can read,
Glassing where under the surface she burns

Quick at her wheel, while the fuel, decay,

Brightens the fire of renewal; and we?
Death is the word of a bovine day

Know you the heart of the springing To-be.

George Meredith.

WHERE are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too, –
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
And touch the stubble plains with rosy hue.

October 16.

Keats.

It appears certain that the objective exhibition of higher goodness is the most powerful means of developing the latent sense of it, . . . that our personal ideal stretches wider with the stature of the beings we behold.

HAVE good will

To all that lives, letting unkindness die,

Martineau.

And greed and wrath; so that your lives be made
Like soft airs passing by.

Edwin Arnold.