It is easy in the world, to live after the world’s opinion: it is easy in solitude, to live after our own. But the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.--_Emerson._ If you knew the light That your soul casts in my sight, How I look to you For the good and true, The beauteous and the right. --_Robert Browning._ Manners impress as they indicate real power. A man who is sure of his point, carries a broad and contented expression, which everybody reads. And you cannot rightly train one to an air and manner, except by making him the kind of man of whom that manner is the natural expression. Nature forever puts a premium on reality.--_Emerson._ Who looks to Heaven alone to save his soul May keep the path, but will not reach the goal: But he who walks in love may wander far, And God will bring him where the blessed are. --_Henry Van Dyke._ “If you and I--just you and I-- Should laugh instead of worry; If we should grow--just you and I-- Kinder and sweeter hearted, Perhaps in some near by and by A good time might get started; Then what a happy world ’twould be For you and me--for you and me!” Let nothing disturb thee, Nothing affright thee; All things are passing; God never changeth; Patient endurance Attaineth to all things; Who God possesseth In nothing is wanting; Alone God sufficeth. --_Longfellow._ The world is full of judgment-days, and in every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped. A man passes for what he is worth.--_Emerson._ Life is noble in proportion to the nobleness of faith; it is successful in proportion to the fixedness of faith.--_Joseph Le Conte._ We should tell ourselves once for all that it is the first duty of the soul to become as happy, complete, independent, and great as lies in its power.--_Maurice Materlinck._ “Cold and reserved natures should remember that though not infrequently flowers may be found beneath the snow, it is chilly work to dig for them, and few care to take the trouble.” Whenever we send out loving thought in generous profusion, every part of our environment echoes back a sweet benediction.--_Henry Wood._ A good book, whether a novel or not, is one that leaves you farther on than when you took it up. If when you drop it, it drops you down in the same old spot, with no finer outlook, no clearer vision, no stimulated desires for that which is better and higher, it is in no sense a good book.--_Anna Warner._ Silence is a great peacemaker.--_Longfellow._ Each act of humble service is that divine touching of the ground which enables one to get the spring whereby he leaps to greater heights.--_R. W. Trine._ Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven forever in the works of the world.--_Ruskin._ “It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.”