To live in love is to live an everlasting youth. Whoever enters old age by this royal road will find the last of life to be the very best of life. Instead of finding himself descending the hills of life, he will find it up-hill all the way, into clearer air. There the vision reaches further; here the sunsets are more golden and the twilight lasts longer.--_Mrs. Mary A. Livermore._ Those who live on the mountain have a longer day than those who live in the valley. Sometimes all we need to brighten our day is to rise a little higher.--_Rev. S. J. Barrows._ Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.--_James Russell Lowell._ The highest compact we can make with our fellow is, let there be truth between us two forevermore.--_Emerson._ Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person’s money as his time.--_Horace Mann._ All service ranks the same with God-- There is no last nor first. --_Browning._ Logic makes only one demand, that of conscience. But life makes a thousand. The body wants health; the imagination cries out for beauty; and the heart for love. Pride asks for consideration; the soul yearns for peace; the conscience for holiness; our whole being is athirst for happiness and for perfection.--_Amiel._ What if it does look like rain, it is fine now!--_William Smith._ Was there ever a wiser or more loving conspiracy than that which keeps the venerable figure of Santa Claus from slipping away, with all the other old-time myths, into the forsaken wonderland of the past?--_Hamilton Wright Mabie._ Mankind are always happier for having been happy. So that if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.--_Sydney Smith._ Never fancy you could be something if only you had a different lot and sphere assigned you. The very things that you most deprecate, as fatal limitations or obstructions, are probably what you most want. What you call hindrances, obstacles, discouragements, are probably God’s opportunities.--_Horace Bushnell._ Who may not strive, may yet fulfil The harder task of standing still, And good but wished, with God is done. --_Whittier._ Happiness and the sense of victory are only for those who live for conscience and duty and the soul’s higher ideals.--_Newell Dwight Hillis._ “Try this for one day:--Think as though your thoughts were visible to all about you.” The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going.--_David Starr Jordan._ Beware lest thy friend learn to tolerate one frailty of thine, and so an obstacle be raised to the progress of thy love.--_Thoreau._