May Your Life Preach More Loudly Than

To Be Prosperous Is Not To Be Superior, And Should Form No Barrier Between Men. Wealth Out Not To Secure The Prosperous The Slightest Consideration. The Only Distinctions Which Should Be Recognized Are Those Of The Soul, Of Strong Principle, Of Incorruptible Integrity, Of Usefulness, Of Cultivated Intellect, Of Fidelity In Seeking The Truth.

All Noble Enthusiasms Pass Through A Feverish Stage, And Grow Wiser And More Serene

Innocent Amusements Are Such As Excite Moderately, And Such As Produce A Cheerful Frame Of Mind, Not Boisterous Mirth; Such As Refresh, Instead Of Exhausting, The System; Such As Recur Frequently, Rather Than Continue Long; Such As Send Us Back To Our Daily Duties Invigorated In Body And Spirit; Such As We Can Partake Of In The Presence And Society Of Respectable Friends; Such As Consist With And Are Favorable To A Grateful Piety; Such As Are Chastened By Self-respect, And Are Accompanied With The Consciousness That Life Has A Higher End Than To Be Amused.

Books Are True Levelers. They Give To All, Who Will Faithfully Use Them, The Society, The Spiritual Presence, Of The Best And Greatest Of Our Race.

Poetry Reveals To Us The Loveliness Of Nature, Brings Back The Freshness Of Youthful Feelings, Reviews The Relish Of Simple Pleasures, Keeps Unquenched The Enthusiasm Which Warmed The Springtime Of Our Being, Refines Youthful Love, Strengthens Our Interest In Human Mature, By Vivid Delineations Of Its Tenderest And Softest Feelings, And Through The Brightness Of Its Prophetic Visions, Helps Faith To Lay Hold On The Future Life.