Look within, for you have a lasting foundation of happiness at home that will always bubble up if you will but dig for it.--Marcus Aurelius Antoninus.

To a friend's house the road is never long.--Danish Proverb.

Honest toil is holy service; faithful work is praise and prayer.

--Henry Van d.y.k.e.

Give me the toiler's joy who has seen the sunlight burst on the distant turrets in the land of his desire.--Muriel Strode.

You can buy a lot of happiness with a mighty small salary, but fashionable happiness always costs just a little more than you're making.--George Horace Lorimer.

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.--Washington Irving.

Where there is one man who squints with his eyes, there are a dozen who squint with their brains.--Oliver Wendell Holmes.

When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.--Jonathan Swift.

What we have got to do is to keep up our spirits and be neighborly. We shall come all right in the end, never fear.--d.i.c.kens.

Happiness is the feeling we experience when we are too busy to be miserable.--Thomas L. Ma.s.son.

Duty is the sublimest word in the English language.--Gen. Robert E.

Lee.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.--Keller.

The activity and soundness of a man's actions will be determined by the activity and soundness of his thoughts.--Beecher.

What men want is not talent, it is purpose; not the power to achieve, but the will to labor.--Bulwer Lytton.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.--Longfellow.

The great hope of society is individual character.--Channing.

Concentrate all your thought upon the work in hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.--Alexander G. Bell.

a.s.sociate with men of good quality if you esteem your reputation, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.--George Washington.

The public school playground transposes many a boy from a public liability to a public a.s.set.--A. E. Winship.

Real coolness and self-possession are the indispensable accompaniments of a great mind.--d.i.c.kens.

One of the crying needs of society is the revival of gentleness and of a refined considerateness in judging others.--Newell D. Hillis.

In this world inclination to do things is of more importance than the mere power.--Chapin.

Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.--J. G. Holland.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

--Johnson.

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.--Disraeli.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.--Thackeray.

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.--Publius Syrus.

Economy is of itself a great revenue.--Comtelburo.

Grace is the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

--Hazlitt.

Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.--Carlyle.

Pull on the oar and not on your influential friends.--A. E. Winship.

The n.o.blest mind the best contentment hath.--Spenser.

To be usefully and hopefully employed is one of the great secrets of happiness.--Smiles.

The man who has begun to live more seriously within, begins to live more simply without.--Phillips Brooks.

Everything in this world depends upon will.--Disraeli.

A man is valued according to his own estimate of himself.--Comtelburo.

All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth.--Whately.

Mightier than all the world, the clasp of one small hand upon the heart.--John Townsend Trowbridge.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.--Napoleon.

Character must stand behind and back up everything--the sermon, the poem, the picture, the play. None of them is worth a straw without it.--J. G. Holland.

The question every morning is not how to do the gainful thing, but how to do the just thing.--John Ruskin.

Resolve to be thyself; and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.--Matthew Arnold.

I hate a thing done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly; if it be wrong, leave it undone.--Gilpin.

What we need most is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real.--F. H. Hedge.

CHAPTER V