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...Galatians, "Your life is hid with Christ in God." He said that Christ's whole life was bound up in his thoughts of God rather than in his work with His disciples. His perfect sympathy had behind. It something not revealed to the casual observer, for there is often a modesty of holiness, a concealment of virtue which, more than the open avowal of sanctity, is pleasing to God. We should cultivate a reverence for quiet honesty, for the different phases of heroism the heroism of poverty, of those noble students who offer upon the altar of sacrifice their scholastic...
...Kelton, herself very rich, and she of course was much interested in the farm and stock. Jefferson's income at this time was about $5,000 a year-$2,000 from his farm and $3.000 from his law practice. Jefferson's "agricultural book" showed much botanical knowledge and often curious mottoes were written on the bark of different trees. His lawns and gardens were his especial pleasure and he often said "Americans should pay especial attention to their lawns, for, as the country is new. There need be no limit to their extent." Jefferson's own lawns were beautifully situated...
...students who choose the profession of medicine as it is called, a certain small number arrive at their decision early in life, and often instinctively; to many others the incentive is that of investigation into this very question, while still others reach the same point as a result of reflection and judgment. These men may be divided into two classes-those who already provided for in a worldly way take up the study of medicine, because they appreciate the duty of usefulness and of an occupation, and those who are to find in it both an occupation and a livelihood...
...books on America Arnold criticized American society without knowing it, and while he often told the truth, he seldom told the whole truth...
...sine qua non of a great critic to have a definite point of view. He chose a text and threw a strong and steady light upon it. His horizon was wider even than that of St. Beuve's. Yet he sometimes fell into ambiguities, and was often led astray by his fondness for phrases. Arnold will always live, nevertheless, as the greatest English critic of the nineteenth century. Arnold's poetry is largely introspective. It is terse, melodious, and clear, but profoundly melancholy. No man's poetry was ever a better guide to his own higher life...