“I do not deem that it matters not How you live your life below; It matters much to the heedless crowd That you see go to and fro; For all that is noble and high and good Has an influence on the rest, And the world is better for everyone Who is living at his best.” Let us beware of losing our enthusiasm. Let us ever glory in something, and strive to attain our admiration for all that would ennoble, and our interest in all that would enrich and beautify our life.--_Phillips Brooks._ A high purpose is magnetic and attracts rich resources.--_Lilian Whiting._ Be firm: one certain element in luck Is genuine, solid old Teutonic pluck. --_Oliver Wendell Holmes._ Not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.--_George Augustus Sala._ It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.--_Dinah Maria Mulock._ So I will trudge with heart elate, And feet with courage shod, For that which men call chance and fate Is the handiwork of God. --_Alice Cary._ “This world is a difficult world indeed, And people are hard to suit, And the man who plays on the violin Is a bore to the man with a flute.” No man can be provident of his time who is not prudent in the choice of his company.--_Jeremy Taylor._ Every great man is always being helped by everybody; for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.--_Ruskin._ Belief in compensation, or that nothing is got for nothing, characterizes all valuable minds.--_Emerson._ Never shrink from anything which your business calls you to do. The man who is above his business may one day find his business above him.--_Drew._ The common problem, yours, mine, every one’s, Is not to fancy what were fair in life, Provided it could be--but finding first What may be, then find how to make it fair Up to our means. --_Browning._ Every life that has God in it has the index to character and the key to the highest attainment.--_L. Purington._ Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be. Man’s noblest gift to man is his sincerity, for it embraces his integrity also.--_Henry D. Thoreau._ We often do more good by our sympathy than by our labors.--_Canon Farrar._ Dost thou love life? Then waste not time; for time is the stuff that life is made of.--_Benjamin Franklin._ The best way of training the young, is to train yourself at the same time; not to admonish them, but to be seen always doing that of which you would admonish them.--_Plato._ It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place, as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity of doing a kindness, or speaking a true word, or making a friend.--_Ruskin._