“By thine own soul’s law learn to live, And if men scorn thee, take no care, And if men hate thee, take no heed, But sing thy song and do thy deed, And hope thy hope, and pray thy prayer.” There are some who want to get rid of their past, who, if they could, would begin all over again, ... but you must learn, you must let God teach you, that the only way to get rid of your past is to get a future out of it.--_Phillips Brooks._ It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking, if your own tongue must praise you.--_Sir Matthew Hale._ Because a man has shop to mind In time and place, since flesh must live, Needs spirit lack all life behind, All stray thoughts, fancies fugitive, All loves except what trade can give? --_Browning._ There is no beautifier in form or behavior like the wish to scatter joy, and not pain, around us.--_Emerson._ Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.--_Benjamin Franklin._ First make your arrangements, then trust in heaven; and in no case worry.--_Prof. Jowett._ “Hold thy peace or say something better than silence.” “Friend, all the world’s a little queer, excepting thee and me; and sometimes I think thee a trifle peculiar.” We live by our enthusiasm and our exaltations. Our sympathies are our strength. Our interests are our magnetisms, and are transmuted into our working capital.--_Lilian Whiting._ His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong. (_Said of Lincoln._)--_Emerson._ He is all truth in his words, and justice in his actions, and if the whole world should disbelieve his integrity, dispute his character, and question his happiness, he would neither take it ill in the least, nor turn aside from that path that leads to the aim of life, toward which he must move, pure, calm, well prepared--and with perfect resignation in his fate.--_Marcus Aurelius._ Observe good faith and justice toward all nations, cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it?--_Washington._ It is well to believe that there needs but a little more thought, a little more courage, more love, more devotion to life, a little more eagerness, one day to fling open wide the portals of joy and of truth.--_Maurice Materlinck._ The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done. --_F. W. Bourdillon._ A man’s home is his castle, but it ought to be more. It ought to be his home. That it is his castle is his right by law. To make it a real home depends upon himself.--_Sir J. Lubbock._ We can fix our eyes on perfection and make almost everything speed towards it.--_W. E. Channing._ “It was the heaven within her that made a heaven without.”