His home the Western giant smiles,
And twirls the spotty globe to find it;
This little speck, the British Isles ?

"T is but a freckle,

never mind it.

But Memory blushes at the sneer,

A Good Time going

And Honor turns with frown defiant,
And Freedom, leaning on her spear,

Laughs louder than the laughing giant.

Ibid.

You hear that boy laughing? — you think he's all fun;
But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done;
The children laugh loud as they troop to his call,
And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all.

Good to the heels the well-worn slipper feels
When the tired player shuffles off the buskin;
A page of Hood may do a fellow good

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: 1 "Good Amer icans when they die go to Paris."

The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. vi. 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, 7889).

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 true patriotism.

Letter to Boston Commercial Club in 1879.

1 Thomas G. Appleton.

WINTHROP. — ALDRICH. PARKER.

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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,

Yet lived she at its close,

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,
And walked in Paradise.

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, May 29, 1850.

1 See Daniel Webster, page 532.

- TUPPER.

A babe in a house is a well-spring of pleasure.

Of Education.

God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love.

Of Immortality.

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."

And

Ibid.

my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on

WENDELL PHILLIPS. 1811-1884.

Revolutions are not made; they come.

Speech, Jan. 28, 1852.

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought,

FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE. 1811-.

A sacred burden is this life ye bear:
Look on it, lift it, bear it solemnly,
Stand up and walk beneath it steadfastly.
Fail not for sorrow, falter not for sin,

But onward, upward, till the goal ye win.

Lines addressed to the Young Gentlemen leaving the Lenox
Academy, Mass.

Better trust all, and be deceived,

And weep that trust and that deceiving,

"The poem,"

1 This quatrain appears with variations in several stanzas. says Mr. Rossiter Johnson in "Famous Single and Fugitive Poems," "is persistently attributed to Alfred Domett; but in a letter to me, Feb. 6, 1879, he says: 'I did not write that poem, and was never in India in my life. I am as ignorant of the authorship as you can be.'"