Four Minute Essays Vol. 5 (1919), The Human Heart
Case of John Lambert and others (1793), 22 How. St. Tr. 1018.
“Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest.”
Qua pote quisque, in ea conterat arte diem.
II, i, 46.
Elegies
Four Minute Essays Vol. 5 (1919), The Human Heart
Four Minute Essays Vol. 5 (1919), The Human Heart
Spring Scatters Far and Wide, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 53.
"Winter", p. 5
The Land (1926)
Context: The country habit has me by the heart,
For he's bewitched for ever who has seen,
Not with his eyes but with his vision, Spring
Flow down the woods and stipple leaves with sun,
As each man knows the life that fits him best,
The shape it makes in his soul, the tune, the tone,
And after ranging on a tentative flight
Stoops like the merlin to the constant lure.
“[ There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it. ]”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“Man, during his abode in this world, knows not his own heart.”
On the Last Day
Context: Man, during his abode in this world, knows not his own heart. Self-love spreads a veil over his imperfections, and conceals the knowledge of his true state, both from himself and from others. But on this day he shall be seen in his true dress, both by himself and by all mankind. The just man is disregarded and despised in this world: he is subjected in a great measure to the will of the sinner; his life is esteemed folly, and his end without honour. He, likewise, shall be seen in his true light on this day, and shall be honoured before the whole world with that honour to which his merits are entitled.
