Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means waste of time.--_Sir J. Lubbock._ There is no preservative and antiseptic, nothing that keeps one’s heart young like sympathy, like giving one’s self with enthusiasm to some worthy thing or cause.--_John Burroughs._ A truly concentrated life promptly rejects every thought of past or future that would disturb its confidence in the present hour.--_C. B. Newcomb._ A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom more fruitful than his toil.--_Hamilton Wright Mabie._ After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul’s indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.--_Wm. R. Alger._ Be sure to live on the sunny side, and even then do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses.--_Chas. H. Eliot._ Whenever Conscience calls a halt, it is no place for Reason to debate the question. The way ahead is no thoroughfare.--_Charles Egbert Craddock._ Give what you have. To some one it may be better than you dare to think.--_Longfellow._ “If bitterness has crept into the heart in the friction of the busy day’s unguarded moments, be sure it steals away with the setting sun. Twilight is God’s interval for peace-making.” It is surely better to pardon too much than to condemn too much.--_Geo. Eliot._ “The initial need to enjoyment is not many possessions, but much appreciation.” Just to be good, to keep life pure from degrading elements, to make it constantly helpful in little ways to those who are touched by it, to keep one’s spirit always sweet and avoid all manner of petty anger and irritability,--that is an idea as noble as it is difficult.--_Edward Howard Griggs._ Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.--_Spurgeon._ “No matter how narrow your limits Go forth and make them broad: You are every one the daughter or son, Crown prince or princess of God.” The best help is not to bear the troubles of others for them, but to inspire them with courage and energy to bear their burdens for themselves and meet the difficulties of life bravely.--_Lubbock._ Never tell evil of a man, if you do not know it for certainty, and if you know it for a certainty, then ask yourself, “Why should I tell it?”--_Lavater._ [Illustration: Henry Ward Beecher _Great powers and natural gifts do not bring privileges to their possessors so much as they bring duties._]