Baron Münchhausen born 1720.
William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, died 1778.
Jean Léon Gérôme born 1824.
And methought that beauty and terror are only one, not two;
And the world has room for love, and death, and thunder and dew;
And all the sinews of hell slumber in the summer air;
And the face of God is a rock, but the face of the rock is fair.
Beneficent streams of tears flow at the finger of pain;
And out of the cloud that smites, beneficent rivers of rain.
--Robert Louis Stevenson.
It is more shameful to be distrustful of our friends than to be
deceived by them.
--La Rochefoucauld.
Thou shalt rejoice in all the good which Jehovah thy God hath given
unto thee.
--Deuteronomy 26. 11.
Lord God, may I comprehend the sacredness of friendship. I thank thee
for my friends, and for all the beautiful influences which they bring
to my life. May I never hold friendship without the sincerity to
return it. Correct my faults, and cause me to learn the secret of
cheerful endurance, that I may be steadfast. Amen.