Word: mottoes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...wisdom is not the having learned any particular thing, but the result of many knowledge mutually acting upon and modifying each other. Michael Angelo chose for his emblem the figure of an old man in a child's go-cart with the motto, anchor impair,- I am still learning. Titian, dying of the plague at ninety-nine, exclaimed sadly, "My God, must I die now, just as I had learned to paint an eye!" Indeed the word learning, which we use to express a result, does by its very form imply an unfinished and unfinishable process. What the judgment requires...
April 30, 1895, is named as the last day for receiving essays, which are to be sent either to the Dean of Harvard College or to the Dean of the College Faculty of the University of Pennsylvania. The essays are to be signed with a motto or an assumed name, and must be accompanied by a sealed envelope marked outside with the same motto or name, but enclosing a statement of the real name and academic standing of the author...
...America is the prominence of denominational feeling in religion. A man's acts and his spirituality are the test by which he should be judged; and while we do not want a universal creed, we do want a feeling of the brotherhood of all men. Socialists, whose very motto is the fraternity of man, are the most inlined to be uncharitable to those outside of their own class. It is for this reason that the cause of the nihilist is not to be commended, because he tries to level society by violence instead of moulding it by love...
...motto of Dr. Peabody's that "every man should have a vocation and an avocation." He himself lived up to this, for while his vocation was the charge of a large church, he made his avocation the conduct of the editorial chair in the North American Review. This work he carried on for five years before giving it up to devote himself to his many other interests. He was always active and in his old age was an example of pluck and energy. Every where people looked up to him and as a leader in religious communion none was more...
...competition was consequently very keen. After dinner the men played ball in the station with apples and oranges taken from the table without extra charge. Nothing on the whole trip reflects better the spirits of the club than this incident; all in fun and all for fun, was the motto...