As soon as a stranger is introduced into any company, one of the first questions which all wish to have answered, is, How does that man get his living? And with reason; every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He fails to make his place good in the world unless he not only pays his debts but also adds something to the common wealth.--_Emerson._ All impatience disturbs the circulation, scatters force, makes concentration difficult if not impossible.--_C. B. Newcomb._ When the sun of joy is hidden And the sky is overcast, Just remember light is coming And a storm can never last. --_J. B. Smiley._ There is no music in a rest, that I know of, but there is the making of music in it.--_Ruskin._ Our lives are songs; God writes the words, And we set them to music at leisure: And the song is sad, or the song is glad As we choose to fashion the measure. We must write the song, Whatever the words, Whatever its rhyme, or meter; And if it is sad, we must make it glad, And if sweet, we must make it sweeter. --_Gibbon._ For what you find in these sweet days, Depends on how you go about it; A glad heart helps poor eyes to see, What brightest eyes can’t see without it. One child sees sunlit air and sky And bursting leaf buds, round and ruddy; Another looks at his own feet, And only sees that it is muddy! --_Henrietta R. Eliot._ The work of the world is done by few; God asks that a part be done by you. --_Sarah K. Bolton._ This nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.--_Abraham Lincoln._ We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it.--_Phillips Brooks._ Earth’s crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God. --_E. B. Browning._ Thoughts are forces: through their instrumentality we have in our grasp, and as our rightful heritage, the power of making life and all its manifold conditions exactly what we will.--_R. W. Trine._ People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.--_Emerson._ [Illustration: HORATIO STEBBINS _The understanding is the vestibule of the mind! Uncover thy head, and enter the temple of the soul! Behold the power, the beauty and the love! If we had nothing but understanding, how little should we know or think or feel!_] Blessed are the Happiness Makers. Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.--_Henry Ward Beecher._ The time will come when the civilized man will feel that the rights of every living creature on the earth are as sacred as his own. Anything short of this cannot be perfect civilization.--_David Starr Jordan._