There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate; when he can’t afford it, and when he can.--_Mark Twain._ A man may get to his journey’s end by the light of a lantern, but he is less secure than the man who travels by daylight, and he loses the landscape.--_Hamilton Wright Mabie._ As our ideal becomes loftier, so does it become more real; and the nobler our soul, the less does it dread that it meet not a soul of its stature; for it must have drawn near unto truth, in whose neighborhood all things must take of its greatness.--_Maurice Materlinck._ The importance of a home it is impossible to exaggerate. What is liberty without it? What is education in schools without it? The greatness of no nation can be secure that is not based upon a pure home life.--_Arnold Toynbee._ Nay, if you come to that, best love of all Is God’s; then why not have God’s love befall Myself? --_Robert Browning._ Let nothing disturb thee, Nothing affright thee; All things are passing; God never changeth; Patient endurance Attaineth to all things; Who God possesseth In nothing is wanting; Alone God sufficeth. --_Santa Teresa’s Book Mark._ When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest of sights to him who has the eye to contemplate the vision.--_Plato._ It is only to the finest natures that age gives an added beauty and distinction; for the most persistent self has then worked its way to the surface, having modified the expression, and to some extent, the features, to its own likeness.--_Mathilde Blind._ “God never loved me in so sweet a way before, ’Tis He alone who can such blessings send, And when His love would new expressions find, He brought thee to me, and He said, ‘Behold a friend.’” “We can never see the sun rise by looking into the west.” Give not thy tongue too great liberty, lest it take thee a prisoner. A word unspoken is like the sword in the scabbard--thine: if vented, thy sword is in another’s hand.--_Quarles._ Reputation is in itself only a farthing candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out; but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.--_Lowell._ The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man’s success in life.--_Edward Everett Hale._ “It was only a glad ‘Good-morning’ As she passed along the way, But it spread the morning’s glory Over the live long day.” There is only one way to have good servants; that is, to be worthy of being well served. Only let it be remembered that “kindness” means, as with your child, so with your servant, not indulgence, but care.--_Ruskin._ [Illustration: James Freeman Clarke _To educate the heart, one must be willing to go out of himself and to come into loving contact with others._]