But as time went on, and the monastic life, which, whether practised by man or by woman, is essentially a feminine life, became more and more exclusively the religious ideal, grave defects began to appear in what was really too narrow a conception of the human character.

=330.= MY LIFE IS LIKE THE SUMMER ROSE.

"Life is a kind of conglomeration without dates," said Linnet.

But the wise man's life is unalloyed happiness.

Life is the great, the holy thing, and love of life is the first of virtues.

It cannot yet be accepted as conclusively proved that a completely open-air life is the best in our climate.

Life for both sexes and all grades in Puerto Rico is a rose, a kiss, and a cigarette; song, laughter, and mañana.

Even married life is sometimes no joy!

CLIFFORD, JOHN, D.D., Baptist minister in London, author of "Is Life Worth Living?" b. 1836.

His life, as far as I can learn, was one unmixed course of cruelty, lust, and impiety, unredeemed by one noble aspiration, one generous, unselfish action.

In the lowest zoophyte it aimed at this; some faint rudiments may there be discerned: but only in man has it perfected that immense galvanic battery that can be loaded from above, below, and around;that engine, not only of perception, but of conception and consecutive thought,whose right hand is memory, whose life is idea, the crown of nature, the platform from which spirit takes-wing.

Nietzsche was so nervously sensitive that everyday life was an anguish to him, and broke his strength.

There was too much reversal of the natural order of the protector and the protected in it; and her life was on too different a plane of thought, feeling, and interest from the life of the uncultured, undeveloped, childish, old woman.

And let not them, like me, before their hour Die; let them live in happiness, in our Old home, till life be full and age content.

A Pause The life of a hospital at the front is a curious mixture of excitement and dullness.

Outwardly their life was a constant hardship, a perpetual struggle against savage nature and savage men.

Again sickness ensued, and my life was once more in peril, chiefly through a disturbed, I might even say, for certain moments, destroyed digestion.

One moment I am alive, I am well, I can talk and eat; next moment life is goinggoingand it is no use to struggle.

Political life is a fine aim, even when its seeker starts without a shred of real patriotism to conceal his personal ambition.

It is objected, both here and in India, that life in the Dominions is a very inadequate education for the sympathetic handling of alien races and customs.

Human life is not a ten-thousand-millionth of the life on the planet, nor the race of men more than an infinitesimal fraction of the creatures which it nourishes.

I have no word of disrespect for Mrs. Leonard, but I say that, in spite of herself and her letter, her life and her character are the most abundant and ample refutation of the belief which she erroneously thinks she entertains.

Monsters of men as we are, dogs, wolves, tigers, fiends, incarnate devils, we do not only contend, oppress, and tyrannise ourselves, but as so many firebrands, we set on, and animate others: our whole life is a perpetual combat, a conflict, a set battle, a snarling fit.

" The life of Elizabeth Evans was only a hint to the mind of the author of Adam Bede.

But, whether angel or devil, his life is the saddest and most interesting among all the men of letters in the nineteenth century.