--DR. JOHNSON.
Let our lives be pure as snow-fields, where our footsteps leave a
mark, but not a stain.--MADAME SWETCHINE.
There is no courage but in innocence, no constancy but in an honest
cause.--SOUTHERN.
INSPIRATION.--Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble
impulse by the name of inspiration?--GEORGE ELIOT.
The glow of inspiration warms us; this holy rapture springs from the
seeds of the Divine mind sown in man.--OVID.
No man was ever great without divine inspiration.--CICERO.
A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and
agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others.
--GREVILLE.
INTELLECT.--If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take
it from him.--FRANKLIN.
Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he
was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his
father Philip for life.--SAMUEL SMILES.
A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well-educated
family.--REV. THOMAS SCOTT.
Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of
the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest
furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest
storm.--COLTON.
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to
live, as well as strong to think.--EMERSON.
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given
us, on this side of the grave.
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