Revelation of God to man must of necessity partake of the imperfections of the medium through which it comes. As pure water from heaven, falling upon and filtering through earth, must gather impurities in its course, differing in amount and kind according to the earth, even so the pure divine truth, filtering through man's mind, must take imperfections characteristic of the man and of the age. Such filtrate must be redistilled in the alembic of reason to separate the divine truth from the earthy impurities.

-Joseph Le Conte.

Never lose an opportunity to see anything beautiful.

Beauty is God's hand-writing.

-Kingsley.

BEAUTY.

Then I said, "I covet truth;

Beauty is unripe childhood's cheat;

I leave it behind with the games of youth:"
As I spoke, beneath my feet

The ground-pine curled its pretty wreath,
Running over the club-moss burrs;

I inhaled the violet's breath;

Around me stood the oaks and firs; Pine-cones and acorns lay on the ground; Over me soared the eternal sky,

Full of light and of deity;

Again I saw, again I heard,

The rolling river, the morning bird;—
Beauty through my senses stole;

I yielded myself to the perfect whole.

-Emerson.

A consideration of petty circumstances is the tomb of great things. -Voltaire.

It is true that a little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Life means, be sure,

-Bacon.

Both heart and head,-both active, both complete,-
And both in earnest.
-E. B. Browning.

When we climb to heaven 'tis on the rounds of love to men.

-Whittier.

The tenderness that apologizes for wickedness is the worst form of cruelty. - Channing.

They that can walk at will where the works of the Lord are reveal'd

Little guess what joy can be got from a cowslip out of the field;

Flowers to these "spirits in prison" are all they can know of the spring,

They freshen and sweeten the wards like the waft of an angel's wing. -Tennyson.

(In the Children's Hospital.)

One learns more metaphysics from a single tempta tion than from all the philosophers. -Lowell.

'Tis not what a man does which exalts him; but what a man would do! -Browning.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

-Thoreau.

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other? -George Eliot.

Even when the bird walks we see that he has wings.

Death knits as well as parts.

Our times are in His hand,

-Lemoine.

Who saith, "A whole I planned,"
Youth shows but half; trust

God, see all, nor be afraid.

-Lowell.

-Browning.

“The lie of an action is greater than the lie of a

word."