Gems Of Thought

I The most utterly lost of all days is that in which you have not once laughed. - Chamfort. Kind words prevent a good deal of that perverseness which rough and iniperious usage ofíen produces in generous minds. - Locke. Liberty wlll not descend to a people, people mustraise themselves to liberty; it is a Messing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed. - Colton. To smile at the jest viiich plante a thorn in anothei's breast is to become a principal in the mischief. - Sheridan. The drying up of a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore. - Byron. The only way to regenérate the world is to do the duty which lies nearest us, and not to hunt after grand, farfetched ones for ourselves. If each drop of rain chose where it should fall, God's showers would not fall as they do now. - Charles Kingsley. Whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a plot of ground where one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to nis country than the whole race of politicians put together.- Swift. All great ages have been ages of belief. I mean, when there was any extraordinary power of performance, when great national movements began, when arts appeared, when héroes exifited, when poems were made, the