Displays of moral excellence, truths set forth in living actions, are multiplied as they are shown. Men are won by what they approve. They are led to imitate what they admire. Laudable actions never stand alone. They go from eye to eye, from heart to heart, creating fresh copies of their immortal worth.--_Dr. Frothingham._ Wouldst shape a noble life? Then cast No backward glances toward the past, And though somewhat be lost and gone, Yet do thou act as one new-born; What each day needs, that shalt thou ask, Each day will set its proper task. --_Goethe._ We should think just as though our thought were visible to all about us. Real character is not outward conduct, but quality of thinking.--_Henry Wood._ It is a much shallower and more ignoble occupation to detect faults than to discover beauties.--_Carlyle._ Whatever you wish to accomplish, be willing to do, and to commence your work at once, right where you find yourself, and decide that you do not want anything better to begin with than the conditions that surround you, for God is with you.--_Raja Yoga._ No one is respectable who is not doing his best.--_Horace Fletcher._ The broad-minded see the truth in different religions; the narrow-minded see only their differences.--_Chinese Proverb._ The dawn is not distant, Nor is the night starless; Love is eternal! God is still God, and His faith shall not fail us; Christ is eternal! --_Longfellow._ Let us be like the bird for a moment perched On a frail branch while he sings; Though he feels it bend, yet he sings his song, Knowing that he hath wings. --_Victor Hugo._ Let us love so well Our work shall still be sweeter for our love, And still our love be sweeter for our work. --_Elizabeth Barrett Browning._ “If you have gracious words to say Oh, give them to our hearts to-day, But if your words will cause us sorrow, Pray keep them till the last to-morrow.” High thoughts and noble in all lands Help me: my soul is fed by such. But ah, the touch of life and hands, The human touch! Warm, vital, close, life’s symbols dear, These need I most, and now, and here. --_Richard Burton._ To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals,--that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.--_Dr. A. Peabody._ The test of an enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.--_Jean Paul._ No education is complete, nor, indeed, of great permanent value, that does not teach how to live contentedly and to economize nerve energy.--_Mary Roberts Smith._