hip is love without his wings."

--William H. Taft (from Byron).

Without sympathy, in the highest sense of intellectual penetration,
kindness may be a folly, and intended aid, oppression.

--John Ruskin.

He that maketh many friends doeth it to his own destruction; but
there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

--Proverbs 18. 24.

My Father, may I know the delight of true friendship which is
responsive and sincere. May I never feel so secure in myself that I
will cease to want friends, or be so dependent on others that I will
be continually seeking them. May I understand the value of having a
stanch friend and of being one. Amen.

SEPTEMBER SIXTEENTH

Gabriel D. Fahrenheit died 1736.

W. Augustus Muhlenberg born 1796.

Francis Parkman born 1823.

Yes, to this thought I hold with firm persistence--
The last result of wisdom stamps it true:
He only earns his freedom and existence
Who daily conquers them anew.

--Goethe.

For thee hath been dawning
Another blue day;
Look how thou let it
Slip empty away.

--Goethe.

Happy the man, and happy he alone,
Who can call to-day his own:
He who, secure within, can say,
"To-morrow, do thy worst, for I have lived to-day."

--John Dryden.

Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of Jehovah is
risen upon thee.

--Isaiah 60. 1.

Gracious Father, help me to be alert this morning and select the
noblest that is in to-day. May I be diligent and not find in the
evening that I have been unworthy of the day. Amen.

SEPTEMBER SEVENTEENTH

Samuel Prout born 1783.

Dr. John Kidd died 1851.

Walter Savage Landor died 1864.

In the hour of distress and misery the eye of every mortal turns to
friendship; in the hour of gladness and conviviality, what is your
want? It is friendship. When the heart overflows with gratitude or
with other sweet and sacred sentiment, what is the word to which it
would give utterance? A friend.

--Walter Savage Landor.

The hurried quest of some people to get hold of new friends is so
perpetual that they never have time to get acquainted with anyone.

--M.B.S.

Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not;
And go not to thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity:
Better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.