""In the vain pursuit of this and that endeavor and dispute" (Omar Khayyam).  From Oberlin College's 1910 yearbook.

"'Tis pleasure, sure, to see one's name in print; a book's a book, although there's nothing in 't" (Byron).  From University of Mary Washington's 1915 yearbook.

"With them the seeds of wisdom did I sow, and with mine own hand wrought to make it grow" (Omar Khayyam).  From Oberlin College's 1910 yearbook.

"There's music in the sighing of a reed, there's music in the gushing of a rill, there's music in all things, if men had ears; our earth is but an echo of the spheres" (Byron).  From University of Mary Washington's 1915 yearbook.

From Life on a Medieval Barony by William Stearns Davis, 1923.

"Society is now one polish'd horde, form'd of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored" (Byron).  From University of Mary Washington's 1915 yearbook.

"As long liveth the merry man, they say, as doth the sorry man, and longer, by a day" (Nicholas Udall, Ralph Roister Doister).  From University of Mary Washington's 1915 yearbook.

Omar Khayyám, from the endpapers of Wesleyan College's 1935 yearbook.

From P's and Q's: A Book on the Art of Letter Arrangement by Sallie B. Tannahill, 1929.

"Make new friends, but keep the old; those are silver, these are gold.  Brow may wrinkle, hair grow gray; [true] friendship never knows decay" (Joseph Parry).  From University of Mary Washington's 1915 yearbook.

""What[!] out of senseless nothing to provoke a conscious something" (Omar Khayyam).  From Oberlin College's 1910 yearbook.

"In books lies the soul of the whole past time. —Carlyle."  From Barnard College's 1922 yearbook.

Omar Khayyám, from Wesleyan College's 1935 yearbook.

Omar Khayyám, from Wesleyan College's 1935 yearbook.

From Purdue University's 1927 yearbook.

From Pictures of the Chinese, Drawn by Themselves, by Robert Henry Cobbold, 1860.

"Break the news to mother."  From Wid's Daily, 1919.

We're honored that Cyril the Sorcerer calligraphized two lines of ours about speaking magic words: "Speak your words of magic with all the weight of saying 'I love you' to someone for the very first time. ... Speak the word as if you were presenting a lost relic from another time."  Cyril added, "Thanks Prof. Oddfellow aka Craig Conley for your artistry with ink, words and magic."

We're honored that Cyril the Sorcerer calligraphized a line of ours about magic words and chocolate: "Delight in the magic word as you speak or sing it, as you might savor a morsel of fine chocolate. —Craig Conley"