17. Examples would indeed be excellent things, were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.—Hare.
18. Be the reasons what they may, the influence of generals, statesmen, and inventors is less deep and abiding than the influence of those poets who have sung of love and grief, of war and worship, and of the shepherd-care of God.—Hillis.
19. The Turk, who believes that his doom is written on the iron leaf in the moment when he entered the world, rushes on the enemy’s sabre with undivided will.—Emerson.
20. Where a man can trust his own heart and those of his friends, tomorrow is as good as today.—Stevenson.
21. Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?—Hamerton.
22.
If thou art worn and hard beset
With sorrows, that thou would’st forget,
If thou would’st read a lesson that will keep
Thy heart from fainting and thy soul from sleep,