Kind hearts are more than coronets,
And simple faith than Norman blood.

TENNYSON.

V.

There are crowds who trample a flower into the dust without once thinking that they have one of the sweetest thoughts of God under their heel.

VI.

Kind hearts are the gardens,
Kind thoughts are the roots,
Kind words are the blossoms,
Kind deeds are the fruits.

VII.

Oh, wad some pow'r the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us!

It wad frae monie a blunder free us,

And foolish notion.

ROBERT BURNS.

VIII.

Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again:
The eternal years of God are hers;
But Error, wounded, writhes in pain,
And dies amid her worshipers.

BRYANT.

IX.

Work for some good, be it ever so slowly;
Cherish some aim, be it ever so lowly;
Labor-all labor-is noble and holy.

X.

Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.

LONGFELLOW.

XI.

In the blackest soils grow the richest flowers, and the loftiest and strongest trees spring heavenward among the rocks.

XII.

HOLLAND.

The Night is mother of the Day,

The winter of the spring,

And ever upon old Decay

The greenest mosses cling;
Behind the cloud the starlight lurks,
Through showers the sunbeams fall;
For God, who loveth all his works,
Has left his hope with all.

WHITTIER.

XIII.

God scatters love on every side
Freely among his children all,

And always hearts are lying open wide
Wherein some grains may fall.

XIV.

But Truth shall conquer at the last,

For round and round we run,

LOWELL.

And ever the right comes uppermost,

And ever is justice done.

CHARLES MACKAY.

XV.

Fear God, and where you go men shall think they walk in hallowed cathedrals.

EMERSON.

XVI.

True worth is in being, not seeming,
In doing, each day that goes by,
Some little good, not in dreaming

Of great things to do by and by;
For whatever men say in their blindness,
And in spite of the fancies of youth,
There is nothing so kingly as kindness,
And nothing so royal as truth.

ALICE CARY.

XVII.

Let more than the domestic mill
Be turned by feeling's river;

Let charity begin at home,

But not stay there for ever.

XVIII.

Closer, closer let us knit

Hearts and hands together
Where our fireside comforts sit
In the wildest weather;

Oh! they wander wide who roam
For the joys of life from home.

XIX.

All common good has common price;

Exceeding good, exceeding;

Christ bought the keys of Paradise

By cruel bleeding.

And every soul that wins a place

Upon its hills of pleasure

Must give its all, and beg for grace

To fill the measure.

XX.

J. G. HOLLAND.

This above all-to thine own self be true;
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.

XXI.

SHAKESPEARE.

The greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

XXII.

CONFUCIUS.

Whene'er a noble deed is wrought,
Whene'er is spoken a noble thought,
Our hearts, in glad surprise,

To higher levels rise.

XXIII.

LONGFELLOW.

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not

breaths;

In feelings, not in figures on a dial:

We should count time by heart-throbs. He most

lives

Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. PHILIP JAMES BAILEY.

XXIV.

Lord of the universe! shield us and guide us!
Trusting thee always through shadow and sun,
Thou hast united us! Who shall divide us?
Keep us, oh, keep us the many in one.
Up with our banner bright,
Sprinkled with starry light!

Spread its fair emblem from mountain to shore;
While through the sounding sky

Loud rings the nation's cry,

Union and liberty! One evermore!

XXV.

O. W. HOLMES.

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it.

XXVI.

HORACE MANN.

How happy is he born and taught
That serveth not another's will;
Whose armor is his honest thought,
And simple truth his utmost skill!

XXVII.

Think truly, and thy thought
Shall the world's famine feed;
Speak truly, and thy word

Shall be a fruitful seed;

Live truly, and thy life shall be
A great and noble creed.

WOTTON.