It is as amazing as it is sad, that we go about so largely burdening ourselves with strivings that are of no consequence, and miss the gladness and exhilaration of living. No life is successful until it is radiant. The King of Glory is always ready to come in. Why do we bar the way? We cannot all live in palaces; but we can all live in the Kingdom of Heaven, and the material luxuries of the one pale before the glow and thrill and exaltation of the other.--_The World Beautiful, Lilian Whiting._ “As I walked by myself I talked with myself, And myself said this unto me: Make friends with thyself, Be true to thyself, And thyself thy good angel shall be.” The prosperity of a nation depends upon the health and morals of its citizens, and the health and morals of people depend mainly upon the food they eat and the houses they live in. The time has come when we must have a science of domestic economy, and it must be worked out in the homes of our educated women. A knowledge of the elements of chemistry and physics must be applied to the daily living.--_Ellen Richards._ ’Tis looking downward makes one dizzy.--_Browning._ Contact with nobler natures arouses the feelings of unused power and quickens the consciousness of responsibility.--_Canon Westcott._ Diligence is the mother of good luck.--_Benjamin Franklin._ “Diving and finding no pearl in the sea, Blame not the ocean, the fault is in thee.” A partnership with God is motherhood, What strength, what purity, what self-control, What love, what wisdom should belong to her Who helps God fashion an immortal soul! --_Mary Wood Allen._ No one but yourself can make your life beautiful, no one can be pure, honorable and loving for you.--_J. R. Miller._ Ah, the key of our life, that passes all wards, opens all locks, Is not I will, but I must, I must, I must,--and I do it. --_A. H. Clough._ I beg you take courage: the brave soul can mend even disaster.--_Catherine of Russia._ Opinions are often the very death of love. Love aright and you will come to think aright; and those who think aright, must think the same. In the meantime, it matters nothing. The thing that does matter is that whereto we have attained.--_Geo. Macdonald._ Would the face of nature be so serene and beautiful if man’s destiny were not equally so?--_Thoreau._ Some men move through life as a band of music moves down the street, flinging out pleasure on every side through the air, to every one far and near that can listen.--_Henry Ward Beecher._ Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and an upright man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still. --_Beaumont and Fletcher._