“Then let us smile when skies are gray, And laugh at stormy weather, And sing life’s lonesome times away: So worry and the dreariest day Will find an end together.” Character is not only written in the face, expressed in conduct and language, but is sent forth as a thought atmosphere.--_Dresser._ Others shall Take patience, courage, to their heart and hand From thy hand and thy heart and thy brave cheer, And God’s grace fructify through thee to all. --_Elizabeth Barrett Browning._ To love one soul for its beauty and grace and truth is to open the way to appreciate all beautiful and true and gracious souls, and to recognize spiritual beauty wherever it is seen.--_H. Black._ We must alter for the better always and unceasingly. Nature seems to be at rest only because she is perpetually renewed. The soul enjoys repose on the same terms.--_De Ravignon._ God gives us power to bear all the sorrows of His making: but He does not give the power to bear the sorrows of our own making, which the anticipation of sorrow most assuredly is.--_Ian MacLaren._ Ever laughs the sunlight in our eyes at morning and at noon, Comes the pure, cool wind, to whisper past our cheek its cheery tune, Just to tell us Earth is beautiful, and at the quiet even Every star looks down lest we forget that earth is crowned with Heaven. --_E. R. Sill._ “The whole world unites in pushing us the way we have really made up our mind to go.” Without distinction, without calculation, without procrastination, love. Lavish it upon the poor, where it is very easy; especially upon the rich, who often need it most; most of all upon our equals, where it is very difficult, and for whom perhaps we each do least of all.--_Henry Drummond._ Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! What you can do, or think you can, begin it! --_Goethe._ ’Tis better to live rich than to die rich.--_Dr. Johnson._ It seems to me there is no maxim for a noble life like this: Count always your highest moments your truest moments. Believe that in the time when you were the greatest and most spiritual man, then you were your truest self.--_Phillips Brooks._ Fine society is the graceful, genial, sympathetic intercourse of fine souls.--_Lilian Whiting._ The stream of content must flow from ourselves, taking its source from a deliberate disposition to learn what is good, and a determined resolution to seek for and enjoy it, however small the portion may be.--_Zimmermann._ When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first.--_Josiah Quincy._ God says, live deeply, earnestly in the present, and the spirit of all the ages shall come and reveal itself to you.--_Phillips Brooks._ To try too hard to make people good is one way to make them worse. The only way to make them good, is to be good, remembering well the beam and the mote.--_George Macdonald._