Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career.

“ [76] were of yesterday, the eloquence and animation with which at that time, to a youthful circle, he enforced the beautiful truth that no man stands in the way of another. ‘The world is wide enough for all,’ he said, ‘and no success which may crown our neighbor can affect our own career.’ ”

Mr. Sumner prepared for “The Law Reporter” of June, 1846, another beautiful tribute, to the memory of the eminent scholar John Pickering, who died on the 5th of May preceding; and, in the course of the eulogy of his friend, indicates the magic of his own success: “His talisman,” said he,

was industry. He was pleased in referring to those rude inhabitants of Tartary, who placed idleness in the torments of the world to come; and often remembered the beautiful proverb in his Oriental studies, that by labor the leaf of the mulberry-tree is turned to silk. His life is a perpetual commentary on those words of untranslatable beauty in the great Italian poet:--

Seggendo in piuma,
In fama non si vien, ne sotto coltre:
Senza la qual chi sua vita consuma.
Cotal vestigio in terra di se lascia,
Qual fumo in áere ed in acqua la schiuma.

Dante, Inferno, Canto XXV.

On the twenty-seventh day of August, 1846, Mr. Sumner pronounced his splendid oration on “The ”