Oct 20, 2023
"Thou findest here what thou wilt wish at last,
And that account which none
can ever shun;
Then frame thy life before thy time be past,
As thou wilt wish that thou in
time hadst done:
Lest thou in vain doth wail
thy wretched state,
When time is past and wailing
comes too late."
A poem by Philip Howard, 13th Earl of...
Oct 4, 2023
"If then the intellect is so excellent a portion of us, and its cultivation so excellent, it is not only beautiful, perfect, admirable, and noble in itself, but in a true and high sense it must be useful to the possessor and to all around him; not useful in any low, mechanical, mercantile sense, but as diffusing good,...