He who has a thousand friends has not one friend to spare, And he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere. --_From the Arabic._ It is a great folly not to part with your own faults, which is possible, but to try instead to escape from other people’s faults, which is impossible.--_Marcus Aurelius._ “To persuade one soul to lead a better life is to leave the world better than you found it.” If you intend to be happy, don’t be foolish enough to wait for a just cause.--_Chap-Book._ Don’t borrow a creed from other people, Nor hang most faith on the stoutest steeple. Look up for your law, but oh! look higher Than the hands on any human spire. If ten think alike, and you think alone, That never proves ’tis ten to one They are right, you wrong; for truth, you see, Is not a thing of majority. It never can make you false, them true, That there’s more of them than there is of you: If your touch is on Truth’s garment’s hem, There is more of you than a world of them. ’Tis not alone in the Orient region That a certain hero’s name is Legion. Nor was it only for once to be That the whole herd together ran down to the sea. Your zenith for no man else is true: Your beam from the sun comes alone to you. And the thought the great God gave your brain Is your own for the world, or the world’s in vain. --_Edward Rowland Sill._ Discontent is want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will.--_Emerson._ “He that brings sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from himself.” Give us, oh, give us, the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He does more in the same time--he will do it better--he will persevere longer.--_Carlyle._ Set about what thou intendest to do: the beginning is half the battle.--_Cæsar._ By the street of By-and-By, one arrives at the house of Never.--_Cervantes._ No wind serves him who has no destined port.--_Montaigne._ Be sure you give men the best of your wares though they be poor enough; and the gods will help you to lay by a better store for the future.--_Henry D. Thoreau._ Reading is indeed to the mind as food is to the body--the material of which its fibre is made. It is surprising to note the difference in the quality of mental thought which even one-half hour’s good reading each day will make.--_Lilian Whiting._ Men are four: He who knows, and knows he knows,-- He is wise--follow him. He who knows, and knows not he knows,-- He is asleep--wake him:-- He who knows not, and knows not he knows not,-- He is a fool--shun him. He who knows not, and knows he knows not,-- He is a child--teach him. --_Arabian Proverb._ Cherish ideals as the traveler cherishes the north star, and keep the guiding light pure and bright and high above the horizon.--_Newell Dwight Hillis._