What I am thinking and doing day by day is resistlessly shaping my future--a future in which there is no expiation except through my own better conduct. No one can save me. No one can live my life for me. If I am wise I shall begin to-day to build my own truer and better world from within.--_H. W. Dresser._ I am an enemy to long explanation; they deceive either the maker or the hearer, generally both.--_Goethe._ He who is false to present duty, breaks a thread in the loom, and will find a flaw, when he may have forgotten the cause.--_Henry Ward Beecher._ “When the outlook is not good, try the uplook.” Every advance we make toward the realization of the truth of the permanence and immanence of law, brings us nearer to Him, who is the First Cause of all law and all phenomena.--_David Starr Jordan._ When in the mid-day march we meet The outstretched shadows of the night, The promise, how divinely sweet, “At eventide, it shall be light.” --_Alice Cary._ You are never to complain of your birth, your training, your employments, your hardships; never to fancy that you could be something if only you had a different lot and sphere assigned you. God understands his own plan, and He knows what you want a great deal better than you do yourself.--_H. Bushnell._ Soar on and up, it’s God projecting as it goes, Expanding into love and joy and peace--but not repose. --_W. W. Story._ “If you would have a happy family life, remember two things: in matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.” Learn not only by a comet’s rush, but by a rose’s blush.--_Browning._ When the Kingdom is once found, life ceases to be a plodding, and becomes an exaltation, an ecstasy, a joy.--_R. W. Trine._ Immortality will come to such as are fit for it; and he who would be a great soul in the future must be a great soul now.--_Emerson._ There is no kind of bondage which life lays upon us that may not yield both sweetness and strength; and nothing reveals a man’s character more fully than the spirit in which he bears his limitations.--_Hamilton W. Mabie._ The vision of things to be done may come a long time before the way of doing them appears clear. But woe to him who distrusts the vision.--_Jenkin Lloyd Jones._ “Every day is a fresh beginning, Listen, my soul, to the glad refrain; And, spite of old sorrow and older sinning, Take heart with the day and begin again.” In order to manage children well, we must borrow their eyes and their hearts, see and feel as they do, and judge them from their own point of view. I pray God to make parents reasonable.--_Eugenie de Guerin._ The finest culture comes from the study of men in their best moods.--_Plutarch._ Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations; I cannot reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.--_Louisa May Alcott._