myself before an
audience without a shirking feeling of reluctance, or without thinking
the excitement I had undergone unhealthy, and the personal exhibition
odious."

--_Southern Churchman._

1902

An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory.

1903

Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.

1904

Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking
to be done.

--_Persian Proverb._

1905

Don't despise a slight wound, or a poor relative.

1906

Never despise small things, for we were all infants before we became
men, and pupils, ere we became teachers.

1907

_Thought._--How often must we repeat it?--rules the world.

--_Carlyle._

1908

At a dinner when Daniel Webster was Secretary of State, after a period
of silence which fell upon the company of some twenty gentlemen who were
present, one of the guests said, "Mr. Webster, will you tell us what was
the most important thought that ever occupied your mind?" Webster slowly
passed his hand over his forehead, and in a low tone enquired of one
near him, "Is there any one here who does not know me?" "No; all are
your friends." "The most important thought that ever occupied my mind,"
said Webster, "was that of my individual responsibility to God." And
after speaking on this subject in the most solemn strain for fully ten
minutes, he silently rose from the table and retired to his room. This
incident serves to illustrate the attitude of great minds towards
eternal things. Great men are not scoffers. The men of flippant jeers
and godless jests are invariably men of small calibre and shallow
intellect.

1909

First thoughts are not always the best.

--_Alfieri._

1910

In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best; in matters of
prudence last thoughts are the best.

--_Rev. Robert Hall._

1911

To be without evil thoughts is God's best gift.

--_Aeschylus._

1912

It is said, the thumb is stronger than all the other fingers together.

1913

THUNDER.--A LOVER OF

Such was the spirit of a venerable [1913:A]patriarch--who shed on a very
humble station the lustre of brilliant graces--that, when the storm sent
others in haste t