One ought never to speak of the faults of one’s friends; it mutilates them. They can never be the same afterward.--_William D. Howells._ Whatever betide, every misfortune must be overcome by enduring it.--_Virgil._ “Never argue with a man who talks loud. You couldn’t convince him in a thousand years.” The new science perceives that instincts and aspirations in the mind are facts of nature that must be interpreted and accounted for by reason as truly as a stone in the hand.--_Newell Dwight Hillis._ Work and love: that is the body and soul of the human being. Happy he where they are one.--_Auerbach._ You picture to yourself the beauty of bravery and steadfastness. And then some little, wretched, disagreeable duty comes which is your martyrdom, the lamp for your oil; and if you do not do it, your oil is spilled.--_Phillips Brooks._ “Watch the thought you hold for the neighbor who is yet living in the consciousness of truth as you understand it. As you are taught of the Spirit, so will he be taught in the way best adapted to him.” Why do we so often prefer to believe in the necessity of suffering and weakness rather than in the possibility of strength and gladness?--_C. B. Newcomb._ Great powers and natural gifts do not bring privileges to their possessor, so much as they bring duties.--_Henry Ward Beecher._ Every day should have some part Free for the Sabbath of the heart. --_Wordsworth._ The beautiful is as useful as the useful.--_Victor Hugo._ The higher education of women means more for the future than all conceivable legislative reforms. Its influence does not stop with the home.--_David Starr Jordan._ “It is not the spurt at the start, but the continued, unresting, unhasting advance that wins the day.” That which is past is gone and irrevocable, and wise men have enough to do with things present and to come.--_Francis Bacon._ Whichever way the wind doth blow Some heart is glad to have it so; Then blow it east or blow it west, The wind that blows, that wind is best. --_Caroline A. Mason._ A lady’s dress should be such as to please God, not laying aside taste, for is He not much more pleased when His children look well than otherwise? I have no idea that Christ was negligent of his dress. His garment was one counted worthy of casting lots upon.--_Mary Lyon._ Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.--_Charles Buxton._ “The smelter bends above his pot of silver Watching its restless heavings to and fro, ’Till ready for the careful coiner, His face reflected, the fused metal show.”