The secrecy of success is constancy to purpose.--Disraeli.

Men talk about the indignity of doing work that is beneath them, but the only indignity that they should care for is the indignity of doing nothing.--W. R. Haweis.

Share your happiness with others, but keep your troubles to yourself.

--Patrick Flynn.

Neither days, nor lives can be made n.o.ble or holy by doing nothing in them.--Ruskin.

Use thy youth as the springtime, wherein thou oughtest to plant and sow all provisions for a long and happy life.--Walter Raleigh.

To have ideas is to gather flowers; to think is to weave them into garlands.--Madame Swetchine.

When a firm decisive spirit is recognized, it is curious to see how the s.p.a.ce clears around a man and leaves him room and freedom.--John Foster.

That person is blest who does his best and leaves the rest, so do not worry.--A. E. Winship.

Work is the best thing to make us love life.--Ernest Renan.

If you want to be miserable, think about yourself,--about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay to you, and what people think of you.--Charles Kingsley.

Aspiration carries one half the way to one's desire.--Elizabeth Gibson.

The best thing is to do well what one is doing at the moment.--Pittacus.

To work and not to genius I owe my success.--Daniel Webster.

No thought is beautiful which is not just, and no thought can be just, that is not founded on truth.--Joseph Addison.

The loss of self-respect is the only true beggary.--John Lancaster Spalding.

The tactful person looks out for opportunities to be helpful, without being obtrusive.--Margaret E. Sangster.

It is labor alone, backed by a good conscience, that keeps us healthy, happy and sane.--G.o.dfrey Blount.

Labor was truly said by the ancients to be the price which the G.o.ds set upon everything worth having.--Lord Avebury.

Our daily duties are a part of our religious life just as much as our devotions are.--Beecher.

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.--Shakespeare.

The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling.--Th.o.r.eau.

Energy and determination have done wonders many a time.--d.i.c.kens.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence: and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order.--F. Bacon.

Bread of flour is good: but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.--John Ruskin.

What is wrong to-day won't be right to-morrow.--Dutch Proverb.

We are only so far worthy of esteem as we know how to appreciate.

--Goethe.

We are grateful that abundant life lies waiting in the heart of winter, and there is no condition where life is not.--Isabel Goodhue.

Wishing will bring things in the degree that it incites you to go after them.--Muriel Strode.

It is impossible to estimate the power for good of a bright, glad shining face. Of all the lights you carry on your face Joy shines farthest out to sea.--Anonymous.

No one in this world of ours ever became great by echoing the voice of another, repeating what that other has said.--J. C. Van d.y.k.e.

One fault mender equals twenty faultfinders.--Earl M. Pratt.

Let us then, be what we are, speak what we think, and in all things keep ourselves loyal to truth.--Longfellow.

There are some people whose smile, the sound of whose voice, whose very presence, seems like a ray of sunshine, to turn everything they touch into gold.--Lord Avebury.

It is work which gives flavor to life. Mere existence without object and without effort is a poor thing. Idleness leads to languor, and languor to disgust.--Amiel.

How poor are they who have only money to give!--John Lancaster Spalding.

Fear begets fear.--A. E. Winship.

What an absurd thing it is to pa.s.s over all the valuable parts of a man and fix our attention on his infirmities!--Addison.

There can be no true rest without work and the full delight of a holiday cannot be known except by the man who has earned it.--Hugh Black.

The more we do the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.--Hazlitt.

Lost--a golden hour, set with sixty diamond minutes. There is no reward, for it is gone forever.--Beecher.

Good company and good conversation are the sinews of virtue.--Stephen Allen.

A triumph is the closing scene of a contest.--A. E. Winship.

Don't forget that the man who can but doesn't must give place to the man who can't but tries.--Comtelburo.

Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with prompt.i.tude.--Sall.u.s.t.

CHAPTER IV

SOME EVERY-DAY VIRTUES