Let us then labor for an inward stillness, An inward stillness and an inward healing; That perfect silence where the lips and heart Are still, and we no longer entertain Our own imperfect thoughts and vain opinions, But God alone speaks in us, and we wait In singleness of heart that we may know His will, and in the silence of our own spirits, That we may do His will, and that only.--_Longfellow._ Many persons might have attained to wisdom had they not assumed that they already possessed it.--_Seneca._ Stagnation is death, whether it be physical or spiritual. A pool cannot be pure and sweet unless there is an outlet as well as an inlet. Unless you use for the service of others what God has already given you, you will find it a long weary road to Spiritual Understanding.--_H. Emilie Cady._ Make friends with your trials, as though you were always to live together, and you will find that when you cease to take thought for your own deliverance, God will take thought for you.--_Francis de Sales._ “God will never leave you without light enough to take one step. Don’t stop walking till the light gives out.” We ask for long life, but ’tis deep life, or grand moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.--_Emerson._ If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.--_Dr. Johnson._ “Happiness does not depend on money or leisure, or society, or even on health; it depends on our relation to those we love.” Life without endeavor is like entering a jewel-mine and coming out with empty hands.--_Japanese Proverb._ Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe--the left hand for want of practice is insignificant--and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right--from constant use.--_Pliny._ Almost every moment of the day the eye is receiving impressions from outward objects, and instantly communicating these impressions to the soul. Thus the soul receives every day thousands of impressions, good or bad, according to the character of the objects presented.--_Cardinal Gibbons._ Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.--_Confucius._ Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting or unrewarding who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong he can help to remedy, or within himself an evil he can hope to overcome.--_Chas. H. Eliot._