Even in the saddest woman's soul there linger snatches of old music,
odours of flowers long dead and turned to dust,--pleasant ghosts, which
still keep her mind attuned to that which may be in others, though in her
never more; till she can hear her own wedding-hymn re-echoed in the tones
of every girl who loves, and see her own wedding-torch re-lighted in the
eyes of every bride.

_Westward Ho_! chap. xxix.

Mystery of Life. July 7.

"All things begin in some wonder, and in some wonder end," said St.
Augustine, wisest in his day of mortal men. It is a strange thing, and a
mystery, how we ever got into this world; a stranger thing still to me
how we shall ever get out of this world again. Yet they are common
things enough--birth and death.

_Good News of God Sermons_.

Beauty of Life. July 8.

The Greeks were, as far as we know, the most beautiful race which the
world ever saw. Every educated man knows that they were the cleverest of
all nations, and, next to his Bible, thanks God for Greek literature. Now
the Greeks had made physical, as well as intellectual education a science
as well as a study. Their women practised graceful, and in some cases
even athletic exercises. They developed, by a free and healthy life,
those figures which remain everlasting and unapproachable models of human
beauty.

_Lecture on Thrift_. 1869.

Study the human figure, both as intrinsically beautiful and as expressing
mind. It only expresses the broad natural childish emotions, which are
just what we want to return to from our over subtlety. Study "natural
language"--I mean the language of attitude. It is an inexhaustible
source of knowledge and delight, and enables one human being to
understand another so perfectly. Therefore learn to draw and paint
figures.

_Letters and Memories_. 1842.

True Civilisation. July 9.

Civilisation with me shall mean--not more wealth, more finery, more self-
indulgence, even more aesthetic and artistic luxury--but more virtue,
more knowledge, more self-control, even though I earn scanty bread by
heavy toil.

_Lecture on Ancient Civilisation_. 1874.

The Church. July 10.

"The Church is a very good thing, and I keep to mine," said Captain
Willis, "having served under her Majesty and her Majesty's forefathers,
and learned to obey orders, I hope; but don't you think, sir, you're
taking it as the Pharisees took the Sabbath Day?"

"How then?"

"Why