LIVING THOUGHTS OF GREAT THINKERS. 835 (Byron. No hand can make the clock strike for me One always has time enough, if one will By-and-by " Flowers have an expression of countenance When all else is lost, the future still remains. (Bryant. Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When he called the flowers, so blue and gold no longer move, the clock stands still. (Longfellow. Threefold the stride of Time, from first to A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the (Rollin. Ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon. en, Stars, that in the earth's firmament do Children of Summer! (Wordsworth. Daisies infinite (Horace Smith. 836 GEMS FOR THE FIRESIDE. Is there not a soul beyond utterance, half I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to benymph, half child, in those delicate lieve petals which glow and breathe about the The bosom of a friend will hold a secret, centres of deep color? (George Eliot. Mine own could not contain. Art thou a type of beauty, or of power, TRUTH. (Massinger. For each thy name denoteth, Passion-flower! O, while you live, tell truth; and shame the O no! thy pure corolla's depth within We trace a holier symbol; yea, a sign dower. It is the Cross ! devil. (Shakespeare. Get but the truth once uttered, and 'tis like A star new-born that drops into its place, Cancelled that curse which was our mortal And which, once circling in its placid round, Not all the tumult of the earth can shake. (Lowell. 'Tis strange-but true; for truth is always strange, Stranger than fiction. (Sir Aubrey de Vere. No spicy fragrance while they grow, (Goldsmith. Woo on, with odor wooing me, (George MacDonald. TRUST. To be trusted is a greater compliment than to reverence. (Byron. But what is truth? 'Twas Pilate's question put LIVING THOUGHTS OF GREAT THINKERS. 837 He is the free-man whom the truth makes The fool is happy that he knows no more. The maxim 'Know thyself' does not suffice; There have been men who could play delight- If a man empties his purse into his head, no ful music on one string of the violin, but there never was a man who could produce the harmonies of heaven in his soul by a one-stringed virtue. (Chapin. Recommend to your children virtue; that A life of knowledge is not often a life of in alone can make happy; not gold. (Beethoven. Virtue maketh men on the earth famous, in their graves illustrious, in the heavens immortal. (Child WISDOM. Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. (Tennyson. A little learning is a dangerous thing; (Sam'l Johnson. In heads replete with thoughts of other men; (Cowper. jury and crime. (Sydney Smith. To know thyself-in others self discern; rance. WOMAN. O, woman! in our hours of ease, By the light quivering aspen made: Not she with trait'rous kiss her Saviour stung, Learning passes for wisdom among those who Last at his cross, and earliest at his grave. want both. (Sir W. Temple. (Barrett. 838 GEMS FOR THE FIRESIDE. But one upon Earth is more beautiful and A babe in a house is a well-spring of pleabetter than the wife-that is the mother. sure. (L. Schefer. Heaven lies about us in our infancy! The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman. (Landor. The future destiny of the child is always the (Napoleon. work of the mother. And whether coldness, pride, or virtue, dignify, A woman, so she's good, what does it signify? (Byron. Happy he (Lowell. With such a mother! faith in womankind fall, (Tupper. (Wordsworth. Pointing to such, well might Cornelia say, When the rich casket shone in bright array, "These are my jewels!" Well of such as he, When Jesus spake, well might the language be, 'Suffer these little ones to come to me!" (Longfellow. Be wise with speed, A fool at forty is a fool indeed. (Young. Years follow'ng years, steal something ev'ry day: At last they steal us from ourselves away, ( Pope. Dark and despairing, my sight I may seal, But man cannot cover what God would reveal: to him, and though he trip and 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before. He shall not blind his soul with clay. (Campbell. It is difficult to grow old gracefully. (Madame de Staël. The youth of the soul is everlasting and (Richter. eternity is youth. Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the brusk. (George McDonald. (Longfellow. Life's shadows are meeting Eternity's day. (James G. Clarke. How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams Time has laid his hand upon my heart gently, not smiting it, but as a harper lays his |