I believe if we could only see beforehand what it is that our Heavenly Father means us to be, the soul beauty and perfection and glory, the glorious and lovely spiritual body that this soul is to dwell in through all eternity, if we could have a glimpse of this, we should not grudge all the trouble and pains he is taking with us now to bring us up to that ideal which is his thought of us.--_Annie Keary._ Let thy every word and act be perfect truth, uttered in genuine love. Let not the forms of business, or the conventional arrangements of society reduce thee into falsehood. Be true to thyself. Be true to thy friend. Be true to the world.--_Lydia Maria Child._ Infidelity to self is infidelity to God.--_Charles B. Newcomb._ Learn to handle and control the ignorant part of your being as you would watch and guide a child. Hold thought and expression to your highest ideal. Learn from your failure.--_God’s Light as It Came to Me._ Self reliance is the basis of behavior, as it is the guaranty that the powers are not squandered in too much demonstration.--_Emerson._ For not in far-off realms of space The Spirit hath its throne; In every heart it findeth place And waiteth to be known. --_F. L. Hosmer._ Difficulties may surround our path; but if the difficulties be not in ourselves, they may generally be overcome.--_Prof. Jowett._ Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindnesses and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort.--_Sir Humphrey Davy._ He that respects himself is safe from others; He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. --_Longfellow._ Chilo, having had the question put to him, What is difficult? said: “To be silent about secrets; to make good use of one’s leisure; and to be able to submit to injustice.” We should every day call ourselves to an account. What infirmity have I mastered to-day? What temptation have I resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.--_Seneca._ Life is something, while the senses heed The spirit’s call; Life is nothing, when our grosser need Engulfs it all. --_Julia Ward Howe._ The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man’s observation, not overturning it.--_Bulwer._ _Revery is the Sunday of thought_; and who knows which is the more important and fruitful for man, the laborious tension of the week, or the life-giving repose of the Sabbath?--_Amiel’s Journal._ There is nothing ridiculous in seeming to be what you really are, but a good deal in affecting to be what you are not.--_Sir J. Lubbock._