And since, I never dare to write As funny as I can. The Height of the Ridiculous When the last reader reads no more. The Last Reader. The freeman casting with unpurchased hand "T is the heart's current lends the cup its glow, Whate'er the fountain whence the draught may flow. A Sentiment. Yes, child of suffering, thou mayst well be sure And when you stick on conversation's burrs, Thine eye was on the censer, And not the hand that bore it. Where go the poet's lines? Ibid. Lines by a Clerk. Answer, ye evening tapers! Speak from your folded papers! A few can touch the magic string, The Poet's Lot. And noisy Fame is proud to win them; Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them! O hearts that break and give no sign Save whitening lip and fading tresses! The Voiceless. Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Ibid. Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea! The Chambered Nautilus His home! the Western giant smiles, 'Tis but a freckle, - never mind it. A Good Time going But Memory blushes at the sneer, And Honor turns with frown defiant, Laughs louder than the laughing giant. Ibid. You hear that boy laughing?-you think he's all fun; Good to the heels the well-worn slipper feels After a scolding from Carlyle or Ruskin. The Boys. How not to settle it. A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. i. People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. Ibid. Everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at all. Ibid. Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. Ibid. vi. There is that glorious epicurean paradox uttered by my friend the historian,1 in one of his flashing moments: "Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries." To this must certainly be added that 1 John Lothrop Motley. Said Scopas of Thessaly, "We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things." - PLU TARCH: On the Love of Wealth. other saying of one of the wittiest of men: "Good Amer icans when they die go to Paris." The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. ei. Boston State-house is the hub of the solar system. You could n't pry that out of a Boston man if you had the tire of all creation straightened out for a crow-bar. Ibid. The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city. Ibid. The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. Ibid. Knowledge and timber should n't be much used till they are seasoned. The hat is the ultimum moriens of respectability. Ibid. Ibid. viii. To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. On the Seventieth Birthday of Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1889). ROBERT C. WINTHROP. 1809– Our Country, whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurements more or less, — still our Country, to be cherished in all our hearts, to be defended by all our hands. Toast at Faneuil Hall on the Fourth of July, 1845. A star for every State, and a State for every star. Address on Boston Common in 1862 There are no points of the compass on the chart of Letter to Boston Commercial Club in 1879. true patriotism. 1 Thomas G. Appleton. ALDRICH. The poor must be wisely visited and liberally cared for, so that mendicity shall not be tempted into mendacity, nor want exasperated into crime. Yorktown Oration in 1881. Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freemen with votes in their hands are left without education. Justice to them, the welfare of the States in which they live, the safety of the whole Republic, the dignity of the elective franchise, all alike demand that the still remaining bonds. of ignorance shall be unloosed and broken, and the minds as well as the bodies of the emancipated go free. Ibid. JAMES ALDRICH. 1810-1856. Her suffering ended with the day, And breathed the long, long night away In statue-like repose. But when the sun in all his state Illumed the eastern skies, A Death-Bed. She passed through Glory's morning-gate, Ibid. THEODORE PARKER. 1810-1860. There is what I call the American idea. . . . This idea demands, as the proximate organization thereof, a democracy, that is, a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government of the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God. For shortness' sake I will call it the idea of Freedom.1 Speech at the N. E. Antislavery Convention, Boston, 1 See Daniel Webster, page 532 A babe in a house is a well-spring of pleasure. Of Education. God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love. Of Immortality. EDGAR A. POE. 1811-1849. Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door! Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore." Ibid. And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on |