Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger. Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time. Joy, temperance, and repose slam the door on the doctor's nose. It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong. It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves. It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved. The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal. It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun. |