For she who is plainest and most forlorn, May, by her beauty, God’s heaven adorn; While she who is fairest of form and face, May, near God’s beautiful, look out of place. So I said, “How, my soul, will it be with thee?”--_Laura Barker._ Half the world is on the wrong scent in the pursuit of happiness. They think it consists in having and getting, and in being served by others. It consists in giving and in serving others.--_Henry Drummond._ What we like determines what we are, and is the sign of what we are; and to teach taste is inevitably to form character.--_Ruskin._ One feast of holy days the crest I, though no Churchman, love to keep; All-Saints--the unknown good that rest In God’s still memory folded deep. --_Lowell._ Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.--_Horace Mann._ Of nothing may we be more sure than this, that if we cannot sanctify our present lot, we could sanctify no other. Our heaven and our Almighty Father are there or nowhere.--_Dr. James Martineau._ “Whether in large or small affairs, there must be perpetual adjustment. Neither men nor women, more than our finely strung musical instruments, can escape the need of constant tuning.” As nothing reveals character like the company we like and keep, so nothing foretells futurity like the thoughts over which we brood.--_Newell Dwight Hillis._ Simply do the best you know, then trust. He who seeks to live by the Spirit and who cares above all for that, will not be without guidance.--_Horatio W. Dresser._ Though to-day may not fulfill All thy hopes, have patience still; For perchance to-morrow’s sun Sees thy happier day begun. --_P. Gerhardt._ There are beautiful things far out in the years: Can we not bear bravely some burdens and fears? --_From Dream Land Sent, Lilian Whiting._ The years Have taught some sweet, some bitter lessons, none Wiser than this, to spend in all things else, But of old friends to be most miserly. --_Lowell._ “It is better to endure all the frowns and anger of the greatest on earth, than to have an uneasy conscience within our breast. O, let the bird in the soul be always kept singing whatsoever one may suffer.” The men and women that are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticise.--_Elizabeth Harrison._ I ought not to pronounce judgment on a fellow creature until I know all that enters into his life; until I can measure all the forces of temptation and resistance; until I can give full weight to all the facts in the case. In other words, I am never in a position to judge another.--_Hamilton W. Mabie._