--HENLEY, _Invictus_.

 

The world is so full of a number of things, I am sure we should all be happy as

kings.

 

--STEVENSON, _A Child's Garden of Verses_.

 

If your morals are dreary, depend upon it they are wrong.

 

--STEVENSON, _Essays_.

 

Every advantage has its tax. I learn to be content.

 

--EMERSON, _Essays_.

 

8. Make a two-minute speech on any of the following general subjects, but you

will find that your ideas will come more readily if you narrow your subject by

taking some specific phase of it. For instance, instead of trying to speak on

"Law" in general, take the proposition, "The Poor Man Cannot Afford to

Prosecute;" or instead of dwelling on "Leisure," show how modern speed is

creating more leisure. In this way you may expand this subject list

indefinitely.

 

_GENERAL THEMES_