The best way of revenge is not to imitate the injury. -Marcus Aurelius. It is never too late to give up our prejudices. Fate is unpenetrated causes. -Thoreau. -Emerson. There has never been a great or beautiful character which has not become so by filling well the ordinary and smaller offices appointed by God. -Horace Bushnell. "It heeds not whence begins our thinking, Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome. -Dr. Johnson. To find his place and fill it is success for a man. -Phillips Brooks. I pack my troubles in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others. -Southey. "Those who fail in life are very apt to assume that every one except themselves has had a hand in their misfortunes." "He serves his country best Who lives pure life, and doeth righteous deed, And walks straight paths, however others stray; And leaves his sons an uttermost bequest, A stainless record which all men may read: This is the better way. "No drop but serves the slowly lifting tide, No dew but has an errand to some flower, No smallest star but sheds some helpful ray; And man by man, each giving to all the rest, Makes the firm bulwark of the country's power: There is no better way." "Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of Nature with which she indicates how much she loves us." He who will not answer to the rudder, must answer to the rocks. -Herve. Teach by your lives. -Bonar. Who waits until the winds shall silent keep, Will never have the ready hour to sow; Who watcheth clouds will have no time to reap. Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties. -Spurgeon. Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense Of service which thou renderest. "Live blameless; God is near. -E. B. Browning. -Inscribed over the door of the house of Linnæus, at Hammerby, Sweden. I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster. -Catherine of Russia. Enthusiasm: The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it, namely, "God in us." -Mme. de Stael. Treat your friends for what you know them to be. Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did, but what they intended. -Thoreau. Better make penitents by gentleness than hypocrites by severity. -St. Francis de Sales. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. -Holmes. The healing of the world Courage, Sir, That makes a man or woman look their goodliest. -Tennyson. I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract -Wordsworth. |