Apology is only egotism wrong side out. -Oliver Wendell Holmes. No one has any more right to go about unhappy than he has to go about ill-bred. He owes it to himself, to his friends, to society and the community in general, to live up to his best spiritual possibilities, not only now and then, but every day and every hour. -Lilian Whiting. Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be sure that he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure is he that he shall shoot higher than he who aims but at a bush. -Sir Philip Sidney. Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but, above all, the power of going out of one's self, and seeing and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another. -Thomas Hughes. There is no duty the fulfillment of which will not make you happier, nor any temptation for which there is no remedy. -Seneca. Let nothing come between you and the light. -Henry D. Thoreau. "The summer vanishes, but soon shall come We must be as courteous to a man as to a picture, which we are willing to give the benefit of a good light. -Emerson. The old year is fast slipping back behind us. We cannot stay it if we would, We must go on and leave our past. Let us go forth nobly. Let us go as those whom greater thoughts and greater deeds await beyond. -Phillips Brooks. Opportunity is a good angel, but she deserts those who fail to recognize her. The ring of power must if the charm is not held to serv-Lilian Whiting. be worn; ice, it slips away. A dull day need not be a depressing day; depression always implies physical or moral weakness, and is therefore never to be tolerated so long as one can struggle against it. -Hamilton W. Mabie. 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours And ask them what report they bore to heaven. -Young's Night Thoughts. For the will and not the gift makes the giver. -Lessing. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. -Emerson. If I shoot at the sun I may hit a star. The highest point of achievement of yesterday is the starting point of to-day. -Motto of Paulist Fathers. I look upon that man as happy, who, when there is a question of success, looks into his work for a reply; not into the market, not into opinion, not into patronage. Work is victory. You want but one verdict; if you have your own, you are secure of the rest. -Emerson. There is ever a song somewhere, my dear, There is ever a song that our hearts may hear— -James Whitcomb Riley. "The Present, the Present is all thou hast For thy sure possessing; Like the Patriarch's angel, hold it fast Till it gives its blessing." What a sublime doctrine it is that goodness cher ished now, is eternal life already entered upon! -William Ellery Channing. |