Nothing is so strong as gentleness, -St. Francis de Sales. Science keeps down the weed of superstition, not by logic, but by rendering the mental soil unfit for its cultivation. -Tyndall. The beauty of work depends upon the way we meet it,—whether we arm ourselves each morning to attack it as an enemy that must be vanquished before night comes, or whether we open our eyes with the sunrise to welcome it as an approaching friend who will keep us delightful company all day, and who will make us feel at evening that the day was well worth its fatigues. -Lucy Larcom. "For no one doth know What he can bestow, What light, strength, and beauty may after him go; Thus onward we move, And, save God above, None guesseth how wondrous the journey may prove." Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast. -Shakespeare. The moment a man can really do his work, he becomes speechless about it. All words become idle to him-all theories. -Ruskin. What if it does look likely to rain, it is fine now! -William Smith. God is ever drawing like toward like, and making them acquainted. -Homer. If I had but two loaves of bread, I would sell one and buy hyacinths, for they would feed my soul. -Koran. 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. The prosperity of a nation depends upon the health and morals of its citizens, and the health and morals of a people depend mainly upon the food they eat and the houses they live in. The time has come when we must have a science of domestic economy, and it must be worked out in the homes of our educated women. A knowledge of the elements of chemistry and physics must be applied to the daily living. -Ellen H. Richards. 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 bedchamber made ready at too great a cost. These things, if they are curious in, 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. Is he dead whose glorious mind Lifts thine on high? To live in hearts we leave behind Is not to die. -Campbell Three things return not, e'en for prayers and tears— The arrow which the archer shoots at will; The spoken word, keen-edged and sharp to sting; The opportunity left unimproved. If thou would'st speak a word of loving cheer, Oh, speak it now. This moment is thine own. -Nellie M. Richardson. Music to the mind is as air to the body. "The highest mounted mind," he said, The silent summit overhead." -Plato. -Tennyson. We lose vigor through thinking continually the same set of thoughts. New thought is new life. -Prentice Mulford. Our life is always deeper than we know, is always more divine than it seems, and hence we are able to survive degradations and despairs which otherwise must engulf us. -Henry James. I wait for my story-the birds cannot sing it, The bells cannot ring it, but long years, O bring it! 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. |