July 2

“All things else, joy, beauty, life itself, are of account only to the degree in which they are consciously used to subserve that higher life. His ultimate standard of value to which everything, alike in art and in social and political relations, is referred, is – not success, not enjoyment, whether sensuous, sentimental, or aesthetic, but – the measure in which may thereby be trained up that higher life of humanity.”

J. C. BROWN, from Ethics of George Eliot.

“Who with a toward or untoward lot,
Prosperous or adverse, to his wish or not,
Plays, in the many games of Life, that one
Where what he most doth value must be won;
Whom neither shape of danger can dismay,
Nor thought of tender happiness betray;
Who, not content that former worth stand fast,
Looks forward, persevering to the last.”

WORDSWORTH

“Self-ease is pain, thy only rest
To labour for a worthy end.”

WHITTIER