In life’s small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscles trained: knowest thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she’ll say to thee, “I find thee worthy, do this thing for me?” --_Lowell._ If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain. --_Emily Dickinson._ I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of a man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor. It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do.--_Henry D. Thoreau._ Much which we think essential is merely a matter of habit.--_Thomas Wentworth Higginson._ The royal road to success is to obey the inner genius, to act in accordance with one’s own intuition, regardless of the fear or favor of those who are bound to the wheel of conventional consistency.--_Lilian Whiting._ Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.--_Lavater._ New occasions teach new duties; Time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still, and onward, Who would keep abreast of truth. --_James Russell Lowell._ What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?--_George Eliot._ Good to forgive, best to forget.--_Browning._ What reason have we to think any other station in the universe more sanctifying than our own? There is none, so far as we can tell, under the more immediate touch of God, none whence sublimer deeps are open to adoration, none murmuring with the whisper of more thrilling affections or ennobled as the theater of more glorious duties. Those to whom the earth is not consecrated will find their heaven profane.--_Dr. James Martineau._ Whoever can influence men should strive to make them more courageous, more enduring, more hopeful, simpler, more joyful.--_Bishop Spaulding._ It is our part in life to work with all our strength toward the realization of ideal humanity, to add one more link to the chain which joins the man-brute of the past, through the man of the present, to the man of the future. The man who is likest Him, we have chosen for our ideal.--_David Starr Jordan._ My own experience and development deepens every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.--_George Eliot._ “When opposition of any kind is necessary, drop all color of emotion out of it and let it be seen in the white light of truth.”