quaintance, 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.--Thoreau.

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.--Dickens.

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 God's.--George Meredith.

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