—Longfellow.
“Sentiment cannot do duty for humanity.”
The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
—Longfellow.
We find in life exactly what we put into it.
—Emerson.
Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.
—Ruskin.
From Socrates to Browning the thinkers and poets have all been emancipators. In the end, this bringing of new light into the minds of the world will be counted their chief service.
—Hamilton W. Mabie.