--_Tacitus._

1983

Things unreasonable are never durable.

--_Italian._

1984

Whatever hath been written shall remain,
Nor be erased nor written o'er again;
The unwritten only still belongs to thee:
Take heed, and ponder well what that shall be.

--_Longfellow._

V

1985

TRIUMPH OF VICISSITUDES.

But yesterday the word of Caesar might
Have stood against the world; now lies he there,
And none so poor to do him reverence.

--_Shakespeare._

1986

I had rather be the first man in the village than the second man in
Rome.

--_Caesar._

1987

If you have performed an act of great and disinterested virtue, conceal
it; if you publish it, you will neither be believed here nor rewarded
hereafter.

1988

If there's a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is
cheerfulness.

--_Sir Edward B. Lytton._

1989

Our virtues disappear, said Rochefoucauld, when put in competition with
our interests, as rivers lose themselves in the ocean.

1990

Virtue, not pedigree, should characterize nobility.

--_From the Latin._

1991

The tones of human voices are mightier than strings or brass to move the
soul.

--_Krummacher._

1992

THE TONE OF VOICE.

It is not so much what you say,
As the manner in which you say it;
It is not so much the language you use,
As the tones in which you convey it.

W

1993

PALACE AND SWEATSHOP.

A lady sits in her boudoir
Languid with leisure's disease,
World-weary and worn with ennui--
Society fails to please;
She craves fresh scenes more alluring
But where is anything new?
She's tired of luxury's gilding,
Weary of nothing to do.

Her life seems empty and useless,
A played out, frivolous game,
Where fawning counterfeits friendship
And love is only a name;
Heart-sick she sulks in seclusion
And scans in mental review,
Her social realm and the follies
She knows are weak and untrue.

Thus over her life she ponders,