Do Anything Rather Than Give Yourself To

Poetry Reveals To Us The Loveliness Of Nature, Brings Back The Freshness Of Youthful Feelings, Reviews The Relish Of Simple Pleasures, Keeps Unquenched The Enthusiasm Which Warmed The Springtime Of Our Being, Refines Youthful Love, Strengthens Our Interest In Human Mature, By Vivid Delineations Of Its Tenderest And Softest Feelings, And Through The Brightness Of Its Prophetic Visions, Helps Faith To Lay Hold On The Future Life.

God Be Thanked For Books; They Are The Voices Of The Distant And The Dead, And Make Us Heirs Of The Spiritual Life Of Past Ages.

Real Greatness Has Nothing To Do With A Man’s Sphere. It Does Not Lie In The Magnitude Of His Outward Agency, In The Extent Of The Effects Which He Produces. The Greatest Men May Do Comparatively Little.

The Fewer The Voices On The Side Of Truth, The More Distinct And Strong Must Be Your Own.

Do Anything Rather Than Give Yourself To Reverie.