It is but a small part that we should perform our mystic rights, typifying friendship, love and truth, but that we should so live them and act them that the touch of a member is the touch of a brother whose words sweeten the Asperities of life and whose last offering is a tribute at the grave.
"The Jericho Road"
W. Bion Adkins
It descended from heaven to soften the hearts of the human family-mellow the Asperities of human nature.
"Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution"
L. Carroll Judson
All the children of a school, without exception, may be exercised by its means, and upon the same paragraph; for while, by the paraphrasing of but one word in a clause, it is within the reach of the humblest intellect; yet, by the changes and transpositions necessary in more difficult passages, either to smooth Asperities, or to avoid grammatical errors, it provides an extemporaneous exercise suited to the talents of the highest grade in any seminary.
"A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education"
James Gall