Health is the first of all liberties, and happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.--_Amiel’s Journal._ Not in the clamor of the crowded street, Nor in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat. --_Longfellow._ Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.--_James Russell Lowell._ There is a dust that settles on the heart as well as that which rests upon the ledge. It is better to wear out than to rust out.--_Sir John Lubbock._ How many a thing which we cast to the ground, when others pick it up becomes a gem.--_George Meredith._ [Illustration: Chas. W. Wendte _Success in life is a matter not so much of talent or opportunity as of concentration and perseverance._] Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.--_Ruskin._ A haze on the far horizon, The infinite, tender sky; The ripe, rich tint of the corn-fields, And the wild geese sailing high; And all over upland and lowland The charm of the golden-rod,-- Some of us call it Autumn And others call it God. --_M. H. Carruth._ I built a chimney for a comrade old, I did the service not for hope or hire, And then I traveled on in winters cold; Yet all the day I glowed before the fire. --_Edwin Markham._ Flowers, says Ruskin, seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity. Children love them; quiet, tender, contented, ordinary people love them as they grow; they are the cottager’s treasure; and in the crowded town mark, as with a little broken fragment of rainbow, the windows of the workers in whose heart rests the covenant of peace. Great privileges never go save in company with great responsibilities.--_Hamilton W. Mabie._ He who has a high standard of living and thinking will certainly do better than he who has none at all.--_Samuel Smiles._ You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments that stand out, the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.--_Henry Drummond._ And let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.--_Emerson._ As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you--in a book, or a friend, or, best of all, in your own thoughts, the eternal thought speaking in your thought.--_George Macdonald._ Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life! The evening beam that smiles the clouds away And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray. --_Byron._