I have seen manners that make a similar impression with personal beauty, that give us the like exhilaration, and refine us like that. But they must be marked by fine perception, they must always show self-control. Then they must be inspired by the good heart.--_Emerson._ Patience! have faith and thy prayer will be answered.--_Longfellow._ “Sentiment cannot do duty for humanity.” The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.--_Longfellow._ We find in life exactly what we put into it.--_Emerson._ Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.--_Ruskin._ From Socrates to Browning the thinkers and poets have all been emancipators. In the end, this bringing of new light into the minds of the world will be counted their chief service.--_Hamilton W. Mabie._ By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear. Dare to look in thy chest--for ’tis thine own,-- And tumble up and down what thou findest there. Who cannot rest till he good fellows finde, He breaks up house, turns out of doors his minde. --_George Herbert._ Personal happiness is almost synonymous with personal interests; the wider the range of the latter, the higher is the degree of happiness.--_Lilian Whiting._ Thoughts of courage, and hope, and highest expectation growing habitual, may lift out and up many a weary pilgrim.--_L. Purington._ “The ornaments of a home are the guests who frequent it.” Do not waste a minute--not a second--in trying to demonstrate to others the merit of your own performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.--_Thomas Wentworth Higginson._ To go about moping, depressed, blue, out of spirits in general, is to exist, but not to live. It is the condition of a mollusk, and unworthy a human being. Worry is a state of spiritual corrosion. A trouble either can be remedied, or it cannot. If it can be, then set about it; if it cannot be, dismiss it from your consciousness, or bear it so bravely that it may become transfigured to a blessing.--_Lilian Whiting._ “It is easy enough to be pleasant When life flows by like a song, But the man worth while is the man who will smile When everything goes dead wrong; For the test of the heart is trouble, And it always comes with years, And the smile that comes with the praises of earth Is the smile that shines through tears.” I think we should treat our minds as innocent children whose guardian we are--be careful what objects and what subjects we thrust on their attention.--_Henry D. Thoreau._ Gather roses while they blossom; to-morrow is not to-day! Allow no moment to escape; to-morrow is not to-day.--_Gleim._