wning in their virtue, how many would they win to the
good cause!--ARCHBISHOP USHER.

Between levity and cheerfulness there is a wide distinction; and the
mind which is most open to levity is frequently a stranger to
cheerfulness.--BLAIR.

You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why
not make earnest effort to confer that pleasure on others? You will
find half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say
anything gloomy.--MRS. L.M. CHILD.

Inner sunshine warms not only the heart of the owner, but all who come
in contact with it.--J.T. FIELDS.

The way to cheerfulness is to keep our bodies in exercise and our
minds at ease.--STEELE.

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to
bear are those which never happen.--LOWELL.

A cheerful temper, joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive,
knowledge delightful and wit good-natured. It will lighten sickness,
poverty and affliction, convert ignorance into an amiable simplicity,
and render deformity itself agreeable.--ADDISON.

CHILDREN.--If I were to choose among all gifts and qualities that
which, on the whole, makes life pleasantest, I should select the love
of children. No circumstance can render this world wholly a solitude
to one who has this possession.--T.W. HIGGINSON.

I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they,
who are so fresh from God, love us.--DICKENS.

They are idols of hearts and of households;
They are angels of God in disguise;
His sunlight still sleeps in their tresses;
His glory still gleams in their eyes.
Oh those truants from home and from heaven,
They have made me more manly and mild,
And I know now how Jesus could liken
The kingdom of God to a child.
--DICKENS.

The child is father of the man.
--WORDSWORTH.

The smallest children are nearest to God, as the smallest planets are
nearest the sun.--RICHTER.

In trying to teach children a great deal in a short time, they are
treated not as though the race they were to run was for life, but
simply a three-mile heat.--HORACE MANN.

Childhood shows the man
As morning shows the day.
--MILTON.

Be very vigilant over thy child in the April of his understanding,
lest the frost of May nip his blossoms. While he is a tender twig,
straighten him; whilst he is a new ve