"The man who never makes mistakes loses a great many chances to learn something."

Why should a true and sincere appreciation be termed flattery, and degraded to the level of insincere praise? Why should an individual be accused of acting from base and selfish policy because he feels the glow and warmth of social response?

-The World Beautiful, Lilian Whiting.

Our power over others lies not so much in the amount of thought within us as in the power of bringing it out. -W. E. Channing.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

-Thoreau.

Why should we wear black for the guests of God? -Ruskin.

I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how, to round off the corners. -Goethe's Mother.

I am not concerned that I have no place,
I am concerned how I may fit myself for one.
I am not concerned that I am not known,
I seek to be worthy to be known.

-Confucius.

The sunrise never failed us yet. -Celia Thaxter.

Don't bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Nerve us with incessant affirmations. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. -Emerson.

How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort, and not for the comfort of one's neighbors.

-Dinah Maria Muloch.

Culture is not an accident of birth, although our surroundings advance or retard it; it is always a matter of individual education. -Hamilton W. Mabie.

No man need hunt for his mission. His mission comes to him. It is not above, it is not below, it is not far-not to make happy human faces now and then among the children of misery, but to keep happy human faces about us all the time.

-J. F. W. Ware.

God's best gift to us is not things, but opportunities.

-Alice W. Rollins.

Whoever will prosper in any line of life must save his own time and do his own thinking. He must spend neither time nor money which he has not earned. -David Starr Jordan.

I pray you, O excellent wife, not to cumber yourself and me to get a rich dinner for this man or this woman who has alighted at our gate, nor a bed-chamber made ready at too great a cost. These things they can get for a dollar at any village. But let this stranger, if he will, in your looks, in your accent, and behavior, read your heart and earnestness, your thought and will, which he cannot buy at any price in any village or city, and which he may well travel fifty miles and dine sparely and sleep hard in order to behold. Certainly, let the board be spread and let the bed be dressed for the traveler; but let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in these things. Honor to the house where they are simple to the verge of hardship, so that there the intellect is awake and reads the laws of the Universe

-Emerson.