Writings on the Walls and Ceilings
Our plastered walls are frescoed near the top moldings. These writings in gold leaf are quotes from the following people.
A moment in the realm of Thought and a new Miracle is wrought. ---George Frederick Wheeler Evolution is God's Way of doing things. --- John Fisk
By the harness that galls the load is drawn. ---Rev. Cyrus Bartol
Every one is the son of his own works. ---Cornantes
Beware when the great God lets loose Thinkers on this planet. ---R.W. Emerson The essence of Genius is the capacity for taking pains. ---Carlyle
Nothing is more terrible than active ignorance. ---Goethe
Advantages are obligation. ---Rev. J.M. Chadwick
Diligence is the Mother of Good luck. --- Franklin
I can feel farther than I can see. ---Theodore Parker
The secret of success is Constancy of purpose. ---Dis
The body is a mere appendage to the soul, entirely devoid of great qualities. ---Cicero
Command large fields but cultivate small ones. ---Virgil
I cease to be depressed by learning slowly if I am to learn forever. ---William Ellery Manning
We see only what we animate. ---R.W. Emerson
Every ultimate fact is only the first of a new series. ---R.W. Emerson
He who relies on assumption and not on ultimate facts weaves cobwebs but no cloth. --- Theodore Parker
Isto Perpetua.. Praise God and Be Cheerful..---Rev. M.M. Newall
Stained Glass Windows
Our church-like windows contain the names of many as follows:
+++++ REFERENCE ROOM (small) Phidias M Angelo (Michelangelo) Herschel Sillman
+++++ COMPUTER AREA Look above the arch between circulation/reference.
Rabens Humbolt (as painted, in the blackletter style, it looks as if it should be Humboit) Franklin Harvey (William Harvey?) Wren Edison Morse Pasteur Watt
+++++ GREAT READING ROOM Holmes Whittier Lowell Longfellow +++++ READING ROOM Plato Webster Beecher Wesley Channing Socrates Cicero Shakespeare Emerson (hmmmm, Ralph Waldo? or our own David?)
+++++ READING ALCOVE Prescott Rollin Grote (Hugo Grotius maybe??)