The best acid is assiduity. —Page 332.

(Volume IX)

Write me as one who loves his fellow men. —Page 11.

When beggars die, there are no comets seen;
The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes. —Page 145.

Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once. —Page 145.

Et tu Brute! Then fall, Cæsar. —Page 154.

Surely man is but a shadow, and life a dream. —Page 286.

All service ranks the same with God. —Page 301.

The year’s at the spring,
And day’s at the morn;
Morning’s at seven;
The hillside’s dew-pearled:
The lark’s on the wing;
The snail’s on the thorn;
God’s in his heaven—
All’s right with the world. —Page 303.