The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.--_Holmes._ What your heart thinks great is great. The soul’s emphasis is always right.--_Emerson._ Courage, Sir, That makes a man or woman look their goodliest. --_Tennyson._ For a woman to be wise and at the same time womanly, is to wield a tremendous influence which may be felt for good in the lives of generations to come.--_David Starr Jordan._ We never know for what God is preparing us in his schools, for what work on earth, for what work in the hereafter. Our business is to do our work well in the present place, whatever that may be.--_Lyman Abbott._ There is no unbelief: Whoever plants a seed beneath the sod, And waits to see it push away the clod, Trusts in God. --_Bulwer-Lytton._ The world is such stuff as ideas are made of. Thought possesses all things. But the world is not unreal. It extends infinitely beyond our private consciousness, because it is the world of a universal mind.--_Josiah Royce._ In Life’s small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscles trained; know’st thou when fate Thy measure takes? or when she’ll say to thee, “I find thee worthy, do this thing for me!” --_Emerson._ To hold one’s self in readiness for opportunity, to keep the serene, confident, hopeful, and joyful energy of mind, is to magnetize it, and draw privileges and power toward one. The concern is not whether opportunity will present itself, but as to whether we will be ready for the opportunity. It comes not to doubt and denial and disbelief. It comes to sunny expectation, eager purpose, and to noble and generous aspiration.--_Lilian Whiting._ Let not soft slumber close your eyes, Before you’ve recollected thrice The train of action through the day. Where have my feet chose out their way? What have I learnt, where’er I’ve been, From all I’ve heard, from all I’ve seen? What know I more that’s worth the knowing? What have I done that’s worth the doing? --_Isaac Watts._ If we neglect to exercise any talent, power, or quality, it soon falls away from us.--_Henry Wood._ Every moment of worry weakens the soul for its daily combat.--_Anna Robertson Brown._ With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat of the long day And wish ’twere done. Not till the hour of light return All we have built do we discern. --_Matthew Arnold._ What a man is inwardly that to him will the world be outwardly: his mood affects the very “quality of the day.”--_Bradford Torrey._ This is my youth--its hopes and dreams How strange and shadowy it all seems, After these many years! Turning the pages idly, so, I look with smiles upon the woe, Upon the joy, with tears!--_Aldrich._