January 3

"It is by believing in, loving and following illimitable ideals that man grows great. Their very impossibility is their highest virtue. They live before us as the image of that unto which we are to grow for ever."
STOPFORD BROOKE

"Nay, falter not - 'tis an assured good
To seek the noblest - 'tis your only good
Now you have seen it; for that higher vision
Poisons all meaner choice for evermore."

GEORGE ELIOT (Pen-name of Mary Ann Evans)

"He preached, very solemnly, on the divided allegiance: wealth, position, clothes, on one side, and on the other, the eternal kingdom and glory of Christ. Which weighed most with those before him in their estimate of their neighbours - the dress, the equipage, the very baubles round their necks, or holiness, and truth, and meekness?"

E. B. BAYLY