[Illustration: EDWIN MARKHAM _Come, let us live the poetry we sing._ ] THOUGHTS Selected from the Writings of Favorite Authors BY Ladies of Fabiola Hospital Association Oakland, California [Illustration] NEW YORK: DODGE PUBLISHING COMPANY 53 and 55 Fifth Avenue The Compilers acknowledge with grateful thanks the courtesy of Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin and Company; Dodd, Mead and Company (for selections from Hamilton Wright Mabie’s “Before My Library Fire,” “In the Forest of Arden,” and other publications); Little, Brown and Company (selections from Lilian Whiting’s “From Dreamland Sent,” “The World Beautiful,” First, Second and Third Series, and other publications), and others in allowing insertion of selections from works of which they own the copyright. [Thoughts. 4] Copyrighted, 1901, by JESSIE K. FREEMAN and SARAH S. B. YULE. The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art in life is to have as many of them as possible.--_Bovée._ To get peace, if you do want it, make for yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us yet knows, for none of us has been taught in early youth, what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thoughts--proof against all adversity. Bright fancies, satisfied memories, noble histories, faithful sayings, treasure-houses of precious and restful thoughts, which care cannot disturb, nor pain make gloomy, nor poverty take away from us--houses built without hands for our souls to live in.--_Ruskin._ I saw the mountains stand Silent, wonderful, and grand, Looking out across the land When the golden light was falling On distant dome and spire; And I heard a low voice calling, “Come up higher, come up higher, From the lowland and the mire, From the mist of earth desire, From the vain pursuit of pelf, From the attitude of self; Come up higher, come up higher.” --_James G. Clarke._ The thrift of time will repay in after life with usury of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams, and waste of it will make you dwindle alike in intellectual and moral stature beyond your darkest reckoning.--_Gladstone._ Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three--all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.--_Edward Everett Hale._ Age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress; And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars invisible by day. --_Longfellow._ If there is any person to whom you feel dislike, that is the person of whom you ought never to speak.--_R. Cecil._ The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.--_Oliver Wendell Holmes._ In nature there is no blemish but the mind;--none can be called deformed but the unkind.--_Shakespeare._