Socrates born B.C. 469.
Dr. Adam Smith born 1723.
Karl Maria von Weber died 1826.
O. Henry died 1910.
You think that upon the score of foreknowledge and divining I am
infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching
death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they
have in going to the God they serve.
--Socrates.
O yet we trust that somehow good
Will be the final goal of ill,
To pangs of nature, sins of will,
Defects of doubt, and taints of blood;
That nothing walks with aimless feet;
That not one life shall be destroyed,
Or cast as rubbish to the void,
When God hath made the pile complete.
--Alfred Tennyson.
How precious is thy lovingkindness, O God! And the children of men
take refuge under the shadow of thy wings.
--Psalm 36. 7.
Eternal God, forbid that I should try to set up thy judgment-seat in
so small a place as self, and attempt to render decisions for thee. My
soul lives anew as I think of thy love, and that there is no place
where thy mercy can be withheld from me. Amen.