Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of all health.

--Amiel.

Not in the clamour of the crowded streets, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves are triumph and defeat.

--Longfellow.

A man should always keep learning something--"always," as Arnold said, "keep the stream running"--whereas most people let it stagnate about middle life.--Anonymous.

A smile pa.s.ses current in every country as a mark of distinction.

--Joe Mitch.e.l.l Chapple.

The thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.

--Tennyson.

No man ever sunk under the burden of the day. It is when to-morrow's burden is added to the burden of to-day that the burden is more than a man can bear.--George MacDonald.

Though sorrow must come, where is the advantage of rushing to meet it?

It will be time enough to grieve when it comes; meanwhile, hope for better things.--Seneca.

All my old opinions were only stages on the way to the one I now hold, as itself is only a stage on the way to something else.--R. L. Stevenson.

Hasten slowly, and, without losing heart, put your work twenty times upon the anvil.--Boileau.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control--these three alone lead life to sovereign power.--Tennyson.

It is curious to what an extent our happiness or unhappiness depends upon the manner in which we view things.--E. C. Burke.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.--Joubert.

Truth is tough; it will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.--Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.--Emerson.

The aids to n.o.ble life are all within.--Matthew Arnold.

Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.--B. R. Haydon.

It is a serious thing that we should see the full beauty of our lives only when they are pa.s.sed or in visions of a possible future. What we most need is to see and feel the beauty and joy of to-day.--Maurice D.

Conway.

Let us enjoy the scenery of the present moment. The landscape around the bend will still be there when our life-train arrives.--Horatio W.

Dresser.

If we cannot get what we like let us try to like what we can get.

--Spanish Proverb.

Men continually forget that happiness is a condition of the mind and not a disposition of circ.u.mstances.--Lecky.

If you would know the political and moral condition of a people, ask as to the condition of its women.--Aime Martin.

Delicacy in woman is strength.--Lichtenberg.

Who has not experienced how, on nearer acquaintance, plainness becomes beautified, and beauty loses its charm, according to the quality of the heart and mind.--Fredrika Bremer.

Her voice was ever soft, gentle and low,--an excellent thing in woman.--Shakespeare.

Gentleness, cheerfulness, and urbanity are the Three Graces of manners.--Marguerite de Valois.

To have what we want is riches, but to be able to do without is power.--George MacDonald.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.--Th.o.r.eau.

In truth, how could I feel this gladness now had I not known the bitterness of woe.--Alicia K. Van Buren.

Of all the joys we can bring into our own lives there is none so joyous as that which comes to us as the result of caring for others and brightening sad lives.--E. C. Burke.

Human improvement is from within outward.--Froude.

Cheerfulness and content are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.--d.i.c.kens.

The law of true living is toil.--J. R. Miller.

We may make the best of life, or we may make the worst of it, and it depends very much upon ourselves whether we extract joy or misery from it.--Smiles.

Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the world at a standstill.--Helen Keller.

He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night.--Benjamin Franklin.

It is great folly not to part with your own faults, which is possible, but to try instead to escape from other people's faults, which is impossible.--Marcus Aurelius.

Labor is discovered to be the grand conquerer, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.--William Ellery Channing.

It is easier to leave the wrong thing unsaid than to unsay it.--George Horace Lorimer.

Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare.--Tolstoi.

If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it. Toil is the law. Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self-indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.--Ruskin.

One of the grandest things in having rights is that, being your rights, you may give them up.--George MacDonald.

Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important in some respects, whether he chooses to be or not.--Hawthorne.

Expediency is man's wisdom. Doing right is G.o.d's.--George Meredith.

Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought.--Victor Hugo.

I simply declare my determination not to feed on the broth of literature when I can get strong soup.--George Eliot.

A thousand words leave not the same deep print as does a single deed.