g, 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 passes current in every country as a mark of distinction.
--Joe Mitchell 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 noble 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 passed 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 circumstances.--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 ac