"Carlyle says, 'My father had one virtue which I should try to imitate--he never spoke of what was disagreeable and past,' and my mother was the same; she turned her back at once upon the last months, which she put away for ever like a sealed volume." _The Story of my Life_, AUGUSTUS HARE. "Hacket's motto, 'Serve God and be cheerful.'" "The Sharp Ferule of Calamity" NOVEMBER 7 "It is to keep a man awake, to keep him alive to his own soul and its fixed design of righteousness, that the better part of moral and religious education is directed; not only that of words and doctors, but the sharp ferule of calamity under which we are all God's scholars till we die." _The Life of R. L. Stevenson_, GRAHAM BALFOUR. "The best help is not to bear the troubles of others for them, but to inspire them with courage and energy to bear their burdens for themselves and meet the difficulties of life bravely." Lord AVEBURY. The Essentials of Happiness NOVEMBER 8 "We weigh ourselves down with burdens of sorrow which are the results of our selfish thoughts and selfish desires; and every one of these burdens lessens our power to live righteously in ourselves, and to live usefully for others." _The Gospel of Joy_, STOPFORD BROOKE. "When you find yourself overpowered, as it were by melancholy, the best way is to go out, and do something kind to somebody or other." _Letters of Spiritual Counsel_, KEBLE. "The grand essentials of happiness are, something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." CHALMERS. "Happiness is easy when we have learnt to renounce." MME. DE STAËL. Unrest NOVEMBER 9 "Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender." _Amiel's Journal._ "What are the chief causes of _Unrest_? If you know yourself, you will answer Pride, Selfishness, Ambition. As you look back upon the past years of your life, is it not true that its unhappiness has chiefly come from the succession of personal mortifications and almost trivial disappointments which the intercourse of life has brought you? Great trials come at lengthened intervals, and we rise to breast them; but it is the petty friction of our everyday life with one another, the jar of business or of work, the discord of the domestic circle, the collapse of our ambition, the crossing of our will, the taking down of our conceit, which make inward peace impossible. Wounded vanity, then, disappointed hopes, unsatisfied selfishness--these are the old, vulgar, universal sources of man's unrest." _Pax Vobiscum_, HENRY DRUMMOND. Rest