GEORGE L. STEARNS WE do not know how to prize good men until they depart. High virtue has such an air of nature and necessity that to thank its possessor would be to praise the water for flowing or the fire for warming us. But, on the instant of their death, we wonder at…
CARLYLE. Hold with the Maker, not the Made, Sit with the Cause, or grim or glad. CARLYLE. THOMAS CARLYLE is an immense talker, as extraordinary in his conversation as in his writing,-I think even more so. He is not mainly a scholar, like the most of my acquaintances, but a practical Scotchman, such as…
THOREAU. A QUEEN rejoices in her peers, And wary Nature knows her own, By court and city, dale and down, And like a lover volunteers, And to her son will treasures more, And more to purpose, freely pour In one wood walk, than learned men Will find with glass in ten times ten. IT seemed…
SAMUEL HOAR. "Magno se Mice quisque tuetur: Victrix causa deis placuit sed victa Catoni." A year ago, how often did we meet Beneath these elms, once more in sober bloom, Thy tall, sad figure pacing down the street. And now the robin sings above thy tomb ! Thy name on other shores may ne'er be…
MARY MOODY EMERSON. The yesterday cloth never smile, To-day- goes drudging through the while, Yet in the name of Godhead, I The morrow front and can defy ; Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed, Cannot withhold his conquering aid. Ah me ! it was my childhood's thought, If He should make my web…
THE CHARDON STREET CONVENTION. IN the month of November, 1840, a Convention of Friends of Universal Reform assembled in the Chardon Street Chapel in Boston, in obedience to a call in the newspapers, signed by a few individuals, inviting all persons to a public discussion of the institutions of the Sabbath, the Church and the…
EZRA RIPLEY, D. D. WE love the venerable house Our fathers built to God : In Heaven are kept their grateful vows, Their dust endears the sod. From humble tenements around Came up the pensive train And in the church a blessing found That filled their homes again. EZRA RIPLEY, D. D. EZRA RIPLEY was…
HISTORIC NOTES OF LIFE AND LETTERS IN NEW ENGLAND. THE ancient manners were giving way. There grew a certain tenderness on the people, not before remarked. Children had been repressed and kept in the background ; now they were considered, cosseted and pampered. I recall the remark of a witty physician who remembered the hardships…
PLUTARCH. The soul Shall have society of its own rank : Be great. be true, and all the Seipios, The Catos. the wise patriots of Rome, Shall Hoek to you and tarry by your side And comfort you with their high company, PLUTARCH IT is remarkable that of an author so familiar as Plutarch, not…
THE SCHOLAR. For thought, and not praise, Thought is the wages For which I sell days, Will gladly sell ages And willing grow old, Deaf and dumb, blind and cold, Melting matter into dreams, Panoramas which I saw, And whatever glows or seems Into substance, into Law. Tun sun and moon shall fall amain Like…