The new conditions of life demand the higher spirituality of the individual. But what is this? Is it a name, a mental state of exaltation, an ecstasy? Is it an exalted hour, or is it conduct? Is it a merely theoretical thing, a vision caught in some rare hour?... If it be thus, it may have a decorative value in ethics, but is devoid of any practical bearing on our common life. Unless spirituality is the power that transforms falsehood to truth, selfishness to generosity, unless it enters into character as a pervasive force, of what use can it be? Spirituality is not negative. It is not the mere absence of sin. It is the most positive state.--_The World Beautiful, Lilian Whiting._ The world seemed empty, and black, and cold, And wretched, and helpless, and very old. God gave me a thought; a new world grew, The thought created the world anew. --_S. W. Foss._ Apology is only egotism wrong side out.--_Oliver Wendell Holmes._ No one has any more right to go about unhappy than he has to go about ill-bred. He owes it to himself, to his friends, to society and the community in general, to live up to his best spiritual possibilities, not only now and then, but every day and every hour.--_Lilian Whiting._ Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be sure that he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure is he that he shall shoot higher than he who aims but at a bush.--_Sir Philip Sidney._ Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God’s best gifts. It involves many things, but, above all, the power of going out of one’s self, and seeing and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.--_Thomas Hughes._ There is no duty the fulfillment of which will not make you happier, nor any temptation for which there is no remedy.--_Seneca._ Let nothing come between you and the light.--_Henry D. Thoreau._ “The summer vanishes, but soon shall come The glad young days of yet another year. So do not mourn the passing of a joy, But rather wait the coming of a good, And know God never takes a gift away But He sends other gifts to take its place.” We must be as courteous to a man as to a picture, which we are willing to give the benefit of a good light.--_Emerson._ The old year is fast slipping back behind us. We cannot stay it if we would. We must go on and leave our past. Let us go forth nobly. Let us go as those whom greater thoughts and greater deeds await beyond.--_Phillips Brooks._ Opportunity is a good angel, but she deserts those who fail to recognize her. The ring of power must be worn; ... if the charm is not held to service, it slips away.--_Lilian Whiting._ A dull day need not be a depressing day; depression always implies physical or moral weakness, and is therefore never to be tolerated so long as one can struggle against it.--_Hamilton W. Mabie._