Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket, is the true doctrine--the most valuable rule of all." "A man must not only desire to be right," said Beecher, "he must _be_ right.

You may say, 'I wish to send this ball so as to kill the lion crouching yonder, ready to spring upon me.

My wishes are all right, and I hope Providence will direct the ball.' Providence won't.

You must do it; and if you do not, you are a dead man." The ruling idea of Milton's life and the key to his mental history is his resolve to produce a great poem.

Not that the aspiration in itself is singular, for it is probably shared in by every poet in his turn.