Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1917 — WORDS OF WISE MEN [ARTICLE]

WORDS OF WISE MEN

It is on the anvil of trial by the blows -of sacrifice and of sorrow that the life of man is shaped to its noblest form. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. This is the true nature of home—it is the place of peace; the shelter not only from all injury, but from all terror, doubt and division. Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right using of strength, and strength is not used rightly when it serves Only to carry a man above his fellows for bls own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.