He who, forgetting self, makes the object of his life service, helpfulness and kindness to others, finds his whole nature growing and expanding, himself becoming large-hearted, magnanimous, kind, sympathetic, joyous and happy; his life becoming rich and beautiful.--_Ralph Waldo Trine._ “Talk happiness; the world is sad enough Without your woes. No path is wholly rough: Look for the places that are smooth and clear, And speak of these to rest the weary ear Of earth, so hurt by one continuous strain Of human discontent and grief and pain.” Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget,--lest we forget! --_Kipling._ This world’s no blot for us Nor blank; it means intensely and means good: To find its meaning is my meat and drink. --_Robert Browning._ The test of friendship is its fidelity when every charm of fortune and environment has been swept away, and the bare, undraped character alone remains; if love still holds steadfast, and the joy of companionship still survives, in such an hour, the fellowship becomes a beautiful prophecy of immortality.--_Hamilton Wright Mabie._ We lose vigor through thinking continually the same set of thoughts. New thought is new life.--_Prentice Mulford._ No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.--_Carlyle._ If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it. Toil is the law. Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self-indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.--_Ruskin._ Nay, never falter; no great deed is done By falterers who ask for certainty. No good is certain but the steadfast mind, The undivided will to seek the good. --_George Eliot._ There is a class of people who are comparatively valueless to the world because of a certain morbidness which they are pleased to call sensitiveness. In reality it is nothing of the sort. It is self-love--a refined variety of it, to be sure, but none the less is it the result of a selfishly subjective state, in which they look in and not out, and down and not up, and fail to lend a hand--not from any real unwillingness, but because they are looking in, and do not see the opportunity.--_Lilian Whiting._ No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.--_Dickens._ We always weaken when we exaggerate.--_La Harpe._ It is not poverty that helps a man; it is the effort by which he throws off the yoke of poverty that enlarges the powers.--_David Starr Jordan._ “Of all bad habits, despondency is among the least respectable, and there is no one quite so tiresome as the sad-visaged Christian who is oppressed by the wickedness and hopelessness of the world.”