CHAPTER XIII.
THE TRIUMPHS OF ENTHUSIASM.
The labor we delight in physics pain .-- SHAKESPEARE.
The only conclusive evidence of a man's sincerity is that he gives himself for a principle.

Words, money, all things else are comparatively easy to give away; but when a man makes a gift of his daily life and practise, it is plain that the truth, whatever it may be, has taken possession of him .-- LOWELL.
Let us beware of losing our enthusiasm.

Let us ever glory in something, and strive to retain our admiration for all that would ennoble, and our interest in all that would enrich and beautify our life .-- PHILLIPS BROOKS.
In the Galerie des Beaux Arts in Paris is a beautiful statue conceived by a sculptor who was so poor that he lived and worked in a small garret.

When his clay model was nearly done, a heavy frost fell upon the city.

He knew that if the water in the interstices of the clay should freeze, the beautiful lines would be distorted.