ness.

This motto was "Drive your business, but don't let your business drive you." The second was quoted to me by the late Bishop I. W. Joyce when I was trying to work eighteen hours a day and I got on with four hours of sleep, a course which resulted in nervousness and sluggishness at every moment of leisure. The motto was 'The Lord giveth His beloved sleep.' The third came to me when I was about thirty years of age. In lecturing and some literary work I had fallen into the habit of being witty and funny, so that everyone expected to laugh when I spoke or wrote for the press. The disease grew on me till one day I read this epigram, 'Oddity may excite attention, but it never can command respect.' I do not know the author, but it 'stuck.' These three have been of service to me."

Another writes: "John Wanamaker in an uplift talk to one thousand girls at the Normal School of his home city, Philadelphia, told of an old Anglo-Saxon motto he saw when on his travels that was an inspiration to him. 'Do ye next thynge.' This was given with an application to those preparing for a teacher's career. It has been remembered thirty years by the writer, and has been a help in planning a busy life."

A third says, "When a boy I used to do some sweeping for a doctor twice a week after school for twenty-five cents a week. He had a framed motto on his bookcase which cut deep into my

mind and which I feel sure made me a better man. It was this:

'Life is a mirror of king and slave,
It is just what we are and do,

So give to the world the best you have,
And the best will come back to you.'

A successful Southern physician writes, "I believe mottoes are a valuable source of help in molding lives. The following have been the great factors in my professional success for nearly a quarter of a century, I. 'Don't hurry!' 2. 'Don't worry!' 3. 'Do it well, or not at all!' 4. 'The boat of Truth in all things will carry you safely over the most turbulent seas of life.' 5. 'Continually send out Love to the whole world —enemies and friends alike—and enjoy its return many-fold!' 6. 'Anger, however slight, is a vile poison to one's self, Self-control is a golden panacea.' 7. 'Live for the whole world, and the whole world will live for you. It is a great investment, one for many millions.' 8. 'Self—is the devil— to be selfish is to be devilish—unselfishness is golden.'"

Nothing so strengthens the mind and enlarges the horizon of manhood and womanhood as a constant effort to measure up to a worthy ambition. It stretches the thought, as it were, to a larger measure, and touches the life to finer issues.

"I dream dreams and see visions, and then I

paint my dreams and my visions," was Raphael's reply to one who had asked him how he made his marvelous pictures. Back of the work ever glows the dream, the aspiration of the worker. Its nature determines whether we shall fulfill the high purpose of our being, or become castaways, flotsam and jetsam on life's ocean.

To Winchester, the oldest boys' public school in England, the founder gave a motto which it retains to this day in its quaint old English form, "Manners makyth man."

Equally inspiring are the mottoes of some of our own colleges and universities, such as Yale's "Lux et Veritas" ("Light and truth"), and Wellesley's "Not to be ministered unto but to minister."

On the entrance gates to Cornell University, erected by Andrew D. White, is the following inscription:

"So enter that daily thou mayst become more learned and thoughtful;

"So depart that daily thou mayst become more useful to thy country and mankind."

Possibly there is no place where mottoes can be used with better effect than in a schoolroom. It is the custom of some teachers to write inspiring mottoes each day on the board and to require their pupils to commit them to memory. The following selections are especially helpful in school work:

"Give a youth resolution and the alphabet, and who shall place limits to his career?"

"We get out of life just what we put into it." Not many things indifferently, but one thing supremely, is the demand of the hour.

"When you are good to others you are always best to yourself."

What is put into the first of life is put into the whole of life.

"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."

"Many things half done do not make one thing well done."

Do not brood over the past, or dream of the future, but seize the instant and get your lesson from the hour.

We stamp our own values upon ourselves and cannot expect to pass for more.

"Your talent is your call."

"Aim high and hold your aim."

"Worth makes the man; the want of it, the fellow."

Business men are recognizing more and more the value of decorating the walls of their offices, workshops, and factories with mottoes embodying the value of industry, economy, sobriety, thoroughness, cheerfulness, and politeness. In the editorial offices of a New York newspaper the following motto, "Terseness; Accuracy; Terseness," is prominent in several places. On the desks of many

business men is the suggestive motto "Do it now." Sometimes this motto is supplemented by the words "and do it to a finish." The president of a large New York concern uses mottoes in hundreds of ways. He has mottoes printed on his business cards, on his billheads,—in fact, on almost every kind of printed matter that he uses.

"Dare and do" was the motto of the brilliant editor, Jeannette L. Gilder. Hamlin Garland's guiding principle has always been embodied in the one word "Concentration." And ex-Speaker Cannon's motto is one that everyone might adopt for the good of all: "I am going to keep my face toward the East. You will never find me down among the pessimists prophesying damnation for the human race."

Another universally helpful motto is Edward Everett Hale's:

"Look up, and not down;

Look out, and not in;

Look forward, and not backward:
Lend a hand."

We find the getting-ahead idea in a great many mottoes, very many of which were born of the necessity of finding work, or of doing more effective work.

The first experience of Mr. Girard, a great Philadelphia merchant on his arrival in this country aptly illustrates this. "When I stepped ashore from the sailing vessel," he said, "I was without