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THOUGHTS 
 
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 [Thoughts. 4] 
 
 Copyrighted, 1901, 
 
 by 
 
 JESSIE K. FREEMAN and SARAH S. B. YULE. 
 
6 
 
 The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant 
 thoughts, and the great art in life is to have as many 
 of them as possible. Bovh, 
 
To get peace, if you do want it, make for yourselves 
 nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us yet knows, for 
 none of us has been taught in early youth, what fairy 
 palaces we may build of beautiful thoughts proof 
 against all adversity. Bright fancies, satisfied mem- 
 ories, noble histories, faithful sayings, treasure-houses 
 of precious and restful thoughts, which care cannot 
 disturb, nor pain make gloomy, nor poverty take away 
 from us houses built without hands for our souls to 
 live in. Ruskin. 
 
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Thoughts 
 
 I saw the mountains stand 
 Silent, wonderful, and grand, 
 Looking out across the land 
 When the golden light was falling 
 On distant dome and spire; 
 And I heard a low voice calling, 
 "Come up higher, come up higher, 
 From the lowland and the mire, 
 From the mist of earth desire, 
 From the vain pursuit of pelf, 
 From the attitude of self; 
 Come up higher, come up higher." 
 
 James G. Clarke, 
 
lo Thoughts 
 
 The thrift of time will repay in after life with usury 
 of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams, and 
 waste of it will make you dwindle alike in intellec- 
 tual and moral stature beyond your darkest reckon- 
 ing. Gladstone. 
 
 Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a 
 time. Some people bear three all they have had, 
 all they have now, and all they expect to have. 
 
 Edward Everett Hale. 
 
 Age is opportunity no less 
 
 Than youth itself, though in another dress; 
 And as the evening twilight fades away 
 
 The sky is filled with stars invisible by day. 
 
 Longfellow. 
 
 If there is any person to whom you feel dislike, 
 that is the person of whom you ought never to speak. 
 
 R. Cecil. 
 
 The great thing in the world is not so much where 
 we stand, as in what direction we are moving. 
 
 Oliver Wendell Holmes. 
 
 In nature there is no blemish but the mind ; none 
 can be called deformed but the unkind. 
 
 Shakespeare. 
 
Thoughts II 
 
 *You never can tell what your thoughts will do, 
 
 In bringing you hate or love ; 
 For thoughts are things, and their airy wings 
 
 Are swifter than carrier doves. 
 They follow the law of the universe, 
 
 Each thing must create its kind ; 
 And they speed o'er the track to bring you back 
 
 Whatever went out from your mind." 
 
12 Thoughts 
 
 Do the duty which lies nearest thee, which thou 
 knowest to be a duty. Thy second duty will already 
 have become clearer. ^Carlyle. 
 
 We need a revival of the individual. The question 
 is not, What are they doing? ^but. What am I doing? 
 Not, Why do you not do this, that, or the other? 
 but, Why am not I doing this, that, or the other ? 
 
 Jenkin Lloyd Jones. 
 
 That man is blessed who every day is permitted to 
 behold anything so pure and serene as the western 
 sky at sunset, while revolutions vex the world. 
 
 Henry D. Thoreau. 
 
 There's life alone in duty done. 
 
 And rest alone in striving. ^Whittier. 
 
 It is a matter of economy to be happy, to view life 
 and all its conditions from the brightest angle; it en- 
 ables one to seize life at its very best. It expands 
 the soul. --H. W. Dresser, 
 
 To educate the heart, one must be willing to go out 
 of himself, and to come into loving contact with 
 others. James Freeman Clarke. 
 
 Associate reverently, and as much as you can, with 
 your loftiest thought. ^Henry D, Thoreau. 
 
Thoughts 13 
 
 This question then is ours ^are we doing our part 
 in the growth of the race? In the current of Hfe are 
 we moving forward? Do our years mark milestones 
 in humanity's struggle towards perfection? Is the 
 God within us so much more unrolled, when our de- 
 velopment has reached its highest point? Can we 
 transmit to our children a better heritage of brain and 
 soul than our fathers left to us ? Has the race through 
 us gained some little in the direction of the law of 
 love? If we have done our part in this struggle our 
 lives have not been in vain. ^David Starr Jordan, 
 
14 Thoughts 
 
 Virgil said of the winning crew in his boat-race, 
 "They can, because they believe they can." 
 
 Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the mis- 
 fortunes hardest to beai are those which never come. 
 
 Lowell, 
 
 To be wise we must first learn to be happy: for 
 those who can finally issue forth from self by the por- 
 tal of happiness, know infinitely wider freedom than 
 those who pass through the gate of sadness. 
 
 Maurice Materlinck, 
 
 When we humor our weaknesses they force them- 
 selves continually upon our attention, like spoiled chil- 
 dren. When we assert our mastery of ourselves and 
 compel its recognition, we stand secure in our sov- 
 ereign rights. Chas, B, Newcomb. 
 
 Put away all sarcasm from your speech. Never 
 complain. Do not prophesy evil. Have a good word 
 for everyone, or else keep silent. 
 
 Henry Ward Beecher. 
 
 Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds. 
 You can't do that way when you're flying words. 
 Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead. 
 But God himself can't stop them when they're said. 
 
 Will Carleton. 
 
Thoughts 15 
 
 Mould conditions aright, and men will grow good 
 *0 fit them. Horace Fletcher, 
 
 Pride 
 Is littleness; he who feels contempt 
 For any living thing hath faculties 
 Which he has never used. ^Wordsworth. 
 
 Treat your friends for what you know them to be. 
 Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did, 
 but what they intended. Henry D. Thoreau. 
 
 Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considera- 
 tions, habitually practiced in our social intercourse, 
 give a greater charm to the character than the display 
 of great talent and accomplishments. Kelty. 
 
 I believe that the mind can be profaned by the habit 
 of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts 
 shall be tinged with triviality. Henry D. Thoreau. 
 
 I Don*t hang a dismal picture on the wall, and do 
 not daub with sables and glooms in your conversation. 
 Don*t be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. 
 
 Emerson. 
 
 No good thing is failure and no evil thing success. 
 W. C. Gannett's favorite proverb. 
 
i6 Thoughts 
 
 iWisdom is knowing what to do next ; 
 
 Skill is knowing how to do it, and Virtue is doing it. 
 
 David Starr Jordan. 
 
 Always laugh when you can ; it is a cheap medicine. 
 Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is 
 the sunny side of existence. --Byron. 
 
 If we are not responsible for the thoughts that pass 
 our doors, we are at least responsible for those we ad- 
 mit and entertain. Charles B. Newcontb. 
 
 Not for the crying, 
 
 Not for the loud beseeching 
 
 Will peace draw near. 
 Rest with palms folded. 
 Rest with thine eyelids fallen, 
 
 Lo! peace is here. ^. R, Sill 
 
 Would you remain always young, and would you 
 carry all joy and buoyancy of youth into your maturer 
 years? Then have care concerning but one thing 
 how you live in your thought world. 
 
 R. W, Trine. 
 
Thoughts \^ 
 
 Lord, for to-morrow and its needs 
 
 I do not pray, 
 Help me from stain of sin 
 
 Just for to-day. 
 
 Let me both diligently work 
 
 And duly pray, 
 Let me be kind in word and deed 
 
 Just for to-day. 
 
 Let me be slow to do my will, 
 
 Prompt to obey, 
 Help me to sacrifice myself 
 
 Just for to-day. 
 
 Let me no wrong or idle word 
 
 Unthinking say. 
 Put Thou Thy seal upon my lips 
 
 Just for to-day. 
 
 So for to-morrow and its needs 
 I do not pray. 
 But keep me, guide me, hold me, Lord, 
 
 Just for to-day. Canon Farrar. 
 
i8 Thoughts 
 
 To live in love is to live an everlasting youth. Who- 
 ever enters old age by this royal road will find the 
 last of life to be the very best of life. Instead of 
 finding himself descending the hills of life, he will 
 find it up-hill all the way, into clearer air. There the 
 vision reaches further ; here the sunsets are more gol- 
 den and the twilight lasts longer. 
 
 Mrs. Mary A. Livermore. 
 
Thoughts 19 
 
 Those who live on the mountain have a longer day 
 than those who live in the valley. Sometimes all we 
 need to brighten our day is to rise a little higher. 
 
 Rev, S. J. Barrows. 
 
 Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, en- 
 ergetic character, and conscientious observance of 
 duty. James Russell Lowell. 
 
 The highest compact we can make with our fellow 
 is, let there be truth between us two forevermore. 
 
 Emerson. 
 
 Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is 
 an act of clear dishonesty. .You may as well borrow 
 a person's money as his time. ^Horace Mann, 
 
 All service ranks the same with God 
 There is no last nor first. Browning. 
 
 Logic makes only one demand, that of conscience. 
 But life makes a thousand. The body wants health; 
 the imagination cries out for beauty; and the heart 
 for love. Pride asks for consideration; the soul 
 yearns for peace; the conscience for holiness; our 
 whole being is athirst for happiness and for perfec- 
 tion. -^Amiel. 
 
20 Thoughts 
 
 What if it does look like rain, it is fine now ! 
 
 William Smith, 
 
 Was there ever a wiser or more loving conspiracy 
 than that which keeps the venerable figure of Santa 
 Claus from slipping away, with all the other old-time 
 myths, into the forsaken wonderland of the past? 
 
 Hamilton Wright Mabie. 
 
 Mankind are always happier for having been happy. 
 So that if you make them happy now, you make them 
 happy twenty years hence by the memory of it. 
 
 Sydney Smith. 
 
 Never fancy you could be something if only you had 
 a different lot and sphere assigned you. The very 
 things that you most deprecate, as fatal limitations or 
 obstructions, are probably what you most want. What 
 you call hindrances, obstacles, discouragements, are 
 probably God's opportunities. Horace Bushneli 
 
 Who may not strive, may yet fulfil 
 
 The harder task of standing still. 
 
 And good but wished, with God is done. 
 
 Whittier. 
 
 Happiness and the sense of victory are only for 
 those who live for conscience and duty and the soul's 
 higher ideals. Newell Dwight Hillis. 
 
Thoughts 21 
 
 "Try this for one day: Think as though your 
 thoughts were visible to all about you." 
 
22 Thoughts 
 
 The world turns aside to let any man pass who 
 knows whither he is going. David Starr Jordan. 
 
 Beware lest thy friend learn to tolerate one frailty 
 of thine, and so an obstacle be raised to the progress 
 of thy love. ^Thoreau. 
 
 As soon as a stranger is introduced into any com- 
 pany, one of the first questions which all wish to have 
 answered, is, How does that man get his living? And 
 with reason; every man is a consumer, and ought to 
 be a producer. He fails to make his place good in the 
 world unless he not only pays his debts but also adds 
 something to the common wealth. Emerson. 
 
 All impatience disturbs the circulation, scatters 
 force, makes concentration difficult if not impossible. 
 
 C. B. Newcomh, 
 
 When the sun of joy is hidden 
 
 And the sky is overcast. 
 Just remember light is coming 
 
 And a storm can never last. 
 
 /. B. Smiley. 
 
 There is no music in a rest, that I know of, but 
 there is the making of music in it. ^"Ruskin. 
 
Thoughts 23 
 
 Our lives are songs; 
 
 God writes the words, 
 And we set them to music at leisure : 
 And the song is sad, or the song is glad 
 As we choose to fashion the measure. 
 
 We must write the song, 
 
 Whatever the words, 
 Whatever its rhyme, or meter ; 
 And if it is sad, we must make it glad. 
 And if sweet, we must make it sweeter. 
 
 Gibbon. 
 
 For what you find in these sweet days. 
 Depends on how you go about it ; 
 
 A glad heart helps poor eyes to see, 
 What brightest eyes can't see without it. 
 
 One child sees sunlit air and sky 
 
 And bursting leaf buds, round and ruddy ; 
 Another looks at his own feet, 
 
 And only sees that it is muddy ! 
 
 ^Henrietta R. Eliot, 
 
24 Thoughts 
 
 The work of the world is done by few ; 
 God asks that a part be done by you. 
 
 Sarah K, Bolton. 
 
 This nation, under God, shall have a new birth of 
 freedom, and government of the people, by the people, 
 for the people, shall not perish from the earth. 
 
 Abraham Lincoln. 
 
 We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because 
 we have within us the beginning and the possibility 
 of it. Phillips Brooks. 
 
 Earth's crammed with heaven. 
 
 And every common bush afire with God. 
 
 E. B. Browning. 
 
 Thoughts are forces: through their instrumentality 
 we have in our grasp, and as our rightful heritage, 
 the power of making life and all its manifold condi- 
 tions exactly what we will. R- W. Trine. 
 
 People seem not to see that their opinion of the 
 world is also a confession of character. Emerson, 
 
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 ^ m "yHE understanding is the z'estibule of 
 
 m the mind! Uncover thy head, and 
 
 M enter the temple of the soul! behold 
 
 the power, the beauty, and the love! 
 
 If we liad nothing but understanding, how little 
 
 should we know or think or feel! 
 
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Thoughts 25 
 
 Blessed are the Happiness Makers. Blessed are 
 they who know how to shine on one's gloom with their 
 cheer. Henry Ward Bcecher. 
 
 The time will come when the civilized man will feel 
 that the rights of every living creature on the earth 
 are as sacred as his own. Anything short of this can- 
 not be perfect civilization. ^David Starr Jordan, 
 
 Search thine own heart. What paineth thee 
 
 In others, in thyself may be; 
 All dust is frail, all flesh is weak ; 
 
 Be thou the true man thou dost seek. 
 
 Whittier, 
 
 Beware of despairing about yourself. 
 
 5"^ Augustine, 
 
 If you were born to honor, show it now : 
 If put upon you, make the judgment good 
 That thought you worthy of it. Shakespeare, 
 
 Then a voice within his breast 
 Whispered, audible and clear : 
 "Do thy duty ; that is best ; 
 Leave unto the Lord the rest !" 
 
 Longfellow, 
 
26 Thoughts 
 
 "There are loyal hearts, there are spirits brave. 
 There are souls that are pure and true ; 
 Then give to the world the best you have. 
 And the best will come to you. 
 Give love, and love to your heart will flow, 
 A strength in your utmost need ; 
 Have faith, and a score of hearts will show 
 Their faith in your word and deed." 
 
Thoughts 27 
 
 Fortune will call at the smiling gate. 
 
 Japanese Proverb. 
 
 "Talk health ; the dreary never-ending tale 
 
 Of mortal maladies is worn and stale. 
 
 You cannot charm or interest or please 
 
 By harping on that minor chord, disease. 
 
 Say you are well, or all is well with you 
 
 And God shall hear your words and make them true.*' 
 
 Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not 
 only a present evil, but that you have increased a 
 habit. Epictetus. 
 
 How true it is that what we really see day by day 
 depends less on the objects and scenes before our eyes 
 than on the eyes themselves and the minds and hearts 
 that use them. ^F. D. Huntington. 
 
 You have not fulfilled every duty, unless you have 
 fulfilled that of being pleasant. Charles Buxton. 
 
 If I am not for myself who will be for me? But if 
 I am for myself alone what am I ? If not now ^when ? 
 
 ^Hillel 
 
28 Thoughts 
 
 I asked the New Year for some motto sweet. 
 Some rule of life by which to guide my feet ; 
 I asked and paused. It answered, soft and low : 
 
 "God's will to know." 
 "Will knowledge then suffice, New Year?" I cried; 
 But ere the question into silence died, 
 The answer came : "Nay ; this remember, too, 
 
 God's will to do." 
 "To know; to do; can this be all we give 
 To Him in Whom we are, and move and live ? 
 No more. New Year ?" "This, too, must be your care : 
 
 God's will to bear." 
 Once more I asked : "Is there still more to tell ?" 
 And once again the answer sweetly fell ; 
 "Yea, this one thing, all other things above, 
 
 God's will to love." 
 
 7. M. C. Bouchard, S. I, 
 
Thoughts 29 
 
 Shun idleness, it is the rust that attaches itself to 
 the most brilliant metals. Voltaire. 
 
 Fe'w men suspect how much mere talk fritters away 
 spiritual energy ^that which should be spent in action, 
 spends itself in words. Hence he who restrains that 
 love of talk lays up a fund of spiritual strength. 
 
 F. W. Robertson. 
 
 Truthfulness is the foundation of all personal ex- 
 cellence. It exhibits itself in conduct. It is recti- 
 tude, truth in action, and shines through every word 
 and deed. Samuel Smiles. 
 
 The cry of the age is more for fraternity than for 
 charity. If one exists, the other will follow, or better 
 still, will not be needed. Dr. Henry D. Chapin. 
 
 There is philosophy as well as philanthropy in the 
 keeping in touch with all sweetness and love, in the 
 being swift to be kind. This is living on the spiritual 
 plane, and spirituality is power. Lilian Whiting. 
 
 Manners are the happy ways of doing things. If 
 they are superficial, so are the dewdrops, which give 
 such a depth to the morning meadow?, Emerson. 
 
 Being all fashioned of the self -same dust. 
 Let us be merciful as well as just. 
 
 Longfellow. 
 
30 Thoughts 
 
 "The man who never makes mistakes loses a great 
 many chances to learn something." 
 
 Why should a true and sincere appreciation be 
 termed flattery, and degraded to the level of insincere 
 praise? Why should an individual be accused of act- 
 ing from base and selfish policy because he feels the 
 glow and warmth of social response ? 
 
 The World Beautiful, Lilian Whiting. 
 
 Our power over others lies not so much in the 
 amount of thought within us as in the power of bring- 
 ing it out. W. E. Channing. 
 
 Could a greater miracle take place than for us to 
 look through each other's eyes for an instant? 
 
 Thoreau. 
 
 Why should we wear black for the guests of God ? 
 
 Ruskin. 
 
 I always seek the good that is in people and leave 
 the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how, 
 to round off the corners. -Goethe's Mother. 
 
 I am not concerned that I have no place, 
 
 I am concerned how I may fit myself for one. 
 
 I am not concerned that I am not known, 
 
 I seek to be worthy to be known. Confucius. 
 
Thoughts 31 
 
 The sunrise never failed us yet. ^^elia Thaxter. 
 
 Don't bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative prop- 
 ositions. Nerve us with incessant affirmations. Don't 
 waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the 
 bad, but chant the beauty of the good. ^Emerson, 
 
 How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone 
 when one keeps house for one's own comfort, and 
 not for the comfort of one's neighbors. 
 
 . Dinah Maria Muloch, 
 
 Culture is not an accident of birth, although our 
 surroundings advance or retard it ; it is always a matter 
 of individual education. ^Hamilton W. Mahie. 
 
 No man need hunt for his mission. His mission 
 comes to him. It is not above, it is not below, it is 
 not far not to make happy human faces now and 
 then among the children of misery, but to keep happy 
 human faces about us all the time. 
 
 /. F. W. Ware. 
 
 God's best gift to us is not things, but opportunities. 
 
 Alice W. Rollins. 
 
 Whoever will prosper in any line of life must save 
 his own time and do his own thinking. He must spend 
 neither time nor money which he has not earned. 
 
 David Starr Jordan. 
 
32 Thoughts 
 
 I pray you, O excellent wife, not to cumber your- 
 self and me to get a rich dinner for this man or this 
 woman who has alighted at our gate, nor a bed-cham- 
 ber made ready at too great a cost. These things 
 they can get for a dollar at any village. But let 
 this stranger, if he will, in your looks, in your ac- 
 cent, and behavior, read your heart and earnestness, 
 your thought and will, which he cannot buy at any 
 price in any village or city, and which he may well 
 travel fifty miles and dine sparely and sleep hard in 
 order to behold. Certainly, let the board be spread 
 and let the bed be dressed for the traveler ; but let not 
 the emphasis of hospitality lie in these things. Honor 
 to the house where they are simple to the verge of 
 hardship, so that there the intellect is awake and reads 
 the laws of the Universe^ 
 
 Emerson. 
 
JOHN VANCE CHENEY 
 
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 HE happiest heart that ever heat 
 Was in some quiet breast, 
 
 That found the common daylight 
 sweet. 
 And left to heaven the rest. 
 
Thoughts 33 
 
 'The secret of the joy of hving is the proper appre- 
 ciation of what we actually possess." 
 
 So then believe that every bird that sings, 
 And every flower that stars the elastic sod, 
 
 And every thought the happy summer brings 
 To the pure spirit is a word of God. 
 
 Coleridge. 
 
 Thrust an Emerson into any Concord, and his pun- 
 gent presence will penetrate the entire region. Soon 
 all who come within the radius of his life respond to 
 his presence as flowers and trees respond with boughs, 
 brilliant and fragrant, to the sunshine. After a little, 
 each Emerson stands girt about with Hawthomes, 
 Whittiers, Holmeses and Lowells. 
 
 Newell Dwight Hillis. 
 
 Make it your habit not to be critical about small 
 things. Edward Everett Hale. 
 
 The nobler life is just as possible to hs all as that 
 which is ignoble. The moment one will assert his 
 freedom from petty cares, perplexities, troubles, and 
 anxieties, that moment they fall off of themselves. 
 A Study of Mrs. Browning, Lilian Whiting. 
 
 He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how 
 to be silent even though he knows he is in the right. 
 
 Cato. 
 
34 Thoughts 
 
 Ah! let us hope that to our praise 
 
 Good God not only reckons 
 The moments when we tread His ways. 
 
 But when the spirit beckons 
 That some slight good is also wrought 
 
 Beyond self-satisfaction, 
 When we are simply good in thought, 
 
 Howe'er we fail in action. Lowell 
 
Thoughts 35 
 
 We need only obey. There is guidance for each of 
 us, and by lowly listening, we shall hear the right word. 
 
 Emerson. 
 
 When a man has not a good reason for doing a 
 thing, he has one reason for letting it alone. 
 
 Sir Walter Scott. 
 
 Pure religion as taught by Jesus Christ is a life, 
 a growth, a divine spirit within, coming out in love 
 and sympathy and helpfulness to our fellow-men. 
 
 Dr. H. W. Thomas. 
 
 Be sure of the foundation of your life. Know why 
 you live as you do. Be ready to give a reason for it. 
 Do not, in such a matter as life, build on opinion 
 or custom, or what you guess is true. Make it a mat- 
 ter of certainty and science. Thomas Starr King. 
 
 Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its re- 
 moval; whereas, it was its continuance which should 
 have taught us its value. Hannah More. 
 
 The soul occupied with great ideas, best performs 
 small duties. lames Martineau. 
 
36 Thou g h t s 
 
 Christianity wants nothing so much in the world 
 as sunny people, and the old are hungrier for love 
 than for bread. The Oil of Joy is very cheap, and if 
 you can help the poor with a Garment of Praise, it will 
 be better for them than blankets. Drummond. 
 
 You will find it less easy to uproot faults than to 
 choke them by gaining virtues. Do not think of your 
 faults, still less of others' faults. In every person 
 who comes near you look for what is good and strong ; 
 honor that; rejoice in it; and as you can, try to imi- 
 tate it ; and your faults will drop off like dead leaves, 
 when their time comes. Ruskin. 
 
 When you hold persistently to the successful mental 
 state, you become a magnet drawing other people to 
 aid you as you in return can aid them. But if you are 
 much of the time despondent and gloomy, you be- 
 come the negative magnet driving the best from you. 
 
 Prentice Mulford, 
 
 There are two days about which nobody should 
 ever worry, and these are yesterday and to-morrow. 
 
 Robert J. Burdette. 
 
 A child, however educated, is still untaught if by 
 his teaching we have not emphasized his individual 
 character, if we have not strengthened his will and 
 its guide and guardian, the mind. 
 
 David Starr Jordan. 
 
Thoughts 37 
 
 "I am only a child who is lying 
 On the bosom of Infinite Love. 
 
 I speak not of living or dying ; 
 
 I know not of sorrow or crying ; 
 My thoughts are dwelling above. 
 
 'The spring of the life that is flowing 
 
 Is hidden with Christ in God. 
 Not yet the mystery knowing, 
 I feel that the peace is growing, 
 
 As a river grows deep and broad. 
 
 "All I need without price I am buying 
 By my trust in the Goodness above. 
 
 There's an end to my yearning and sighing. 
 
 For just like a child I am lying 
 On the bosom of Infinite Love." 
 
38 Thoughts 
 
 The optimist, by his superior wisdom and insight, 
 is making his own heaven, and in the degree that he 
 makes his own heaven, is he helping to make one for 
 all the world beside. R. W. Trine, 
 
 Do not let your head run upon that which is none 
 of your own, but pick out some of the best of your 
 circumstances, and consider how eagerly you would 
 wish for them, were they not in your possession. 
 
 Marcus Aurelius. 
 
 Insist on your self ; never imitate. There is at this 
 moment for you an utterance brave and grand as that 
 of the colossal chisel of Phidias, or the pen of Moses 
 or Dante, but different from these. If you can hear 
 what these patriarchs say, surely you can reply to 
 them in the same pitch of voice. Emerson. 
 
 Just because there's fallen 
 
 A snow-flake on his forehead. 
 He must go and fancy 
 
 'Tis winter all the year ! Aldrkh. 
 
 How poor they are that have not patience. 
 
 Shakespeare. 
 
 O God, animate us to cheerfulness ! May we have 
 a joyful sense of our blessings, learn to look on the 
 bright circumstances of our lot, and maintain a perpet- 
 ual contentedness. JF. E. Channing. 
 
Thoughts 39 
 
 Thy love shall chant its own beatitudes 
 After its own self-working. A child's kiss 
 Set on the sighing lips shall make thee glad ; 
 A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich ; 
 A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong ; 
 Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense 
 Of service which thou renderest. 
 
 E. B. Browning. 
 
 "Then take this honey for the bitterest cup ; 
 There is no failure, save in giving up ; 
 No real fall so long as one still tries. 
 For seeming setbacks make the strong man wise. 
 There's no defeat, in truth, save from within ; 
 Unless you're beaten there, you're bound to win." 
 
 A crowd of troubles passed him by 
 
 As he with courage waited ; 
 He said, "Where do you troubles fly 
 
 When you are thus belated ?'* 
 "We go," they say, "to those who mope. 
 
 Who look on life dejected. 
 Who weakly say 'good-bye* to hope. 
 
 We go where we're expected." 
 
 Francis J. Allison. 
 
40 Thoughts 
 
 "Bring me men to match my mountains. 
 Bring me men to match my plains ; 
 Men with empires in their purpose 
 And new eras in their brains." 
 
 "Who will remember that skies are gray 
 If he carries a happy heart all day?" 
 
 A man is specially and divinely fortunate, not when 
 his conditions are easy, but when they evoke the very 
 best that is in him ; when they provoke him to noble- 
 ness, and sting him to strength, when they clear his 
 vision, kindle his enthusiasm and inspire his will. 
 
 Hamilton Wright Mahie. 
 
 The deeper the feeling the less demonstrative will 
 be the expression of it. Balzac. 
 
 The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his 
 friend. If he knows I am happy in loving him, he 
 will want no other reward. H. D. Thoreau. 
 
 "Live blameless ; God is near." 
 Inscribed over the door of the house of Linnaeus, at Hanv- 
 merhy, Sweden. 
 
 It is always good to know, if only in passing, charm- 
 ing human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and 
 woods and clear brooks. George Eliot. 
 
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 PRAY thee, then. 
 
 Write me as one who loves his fellow 
 men. 
 
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Thoughts 41 
 
 Do not discharge in haste the arrow which can 
 never return: it is easy to destroy happiness; most 
 difficult to restore it. ^Herder. 
 
 Disappointment should always be taken as a stim- 
 ulant, and never viewed as a discouragement. 
 
 C. B. Newcomb, 
 
 In all the crowded Universe 
 There is but one stupendous word : Love. 
 There is no tree that rears its crest, 
 No fern or flower that cleaves the sod 
 Nor bird that sings above its nest. 
 But tries to speak this word of God. 
 
 -^/. G. Holland. 
 
 He who has a thousand friends has not one friend to 
 
 spare. 
 And he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere. 
 
 From the Arabic. 
 
 It IS a 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 Aureliuc. 
 
 "To persuade one soul to lead a better life is to 
 leave the world better than you found it." 
 
42 Thoughts 
 
 If you intend to be happy, don't be foolish enough 
 to wait for a just cause. Chap-Book. 
 
Thoughts 43 
 
 Don't borrow a creed from other people, 
 Nior hang most faith on the stoutest steeple. 
 Look up for your law, but oh ! look higher 
 Than the hands on any human spire. 
 If ten think alike, and you think alone. 
 That never proves 'tis ten to one 
 They are nght, you wrong ; for truth, you see. 
 Is not a thing of majority. 
 It never can make you false, them true. 
 That there's more of them than there is of you : 
 If your touch is on Truth's garment's hem. 
 There is more of you than a world of them. 
 'Tis not alone in the Orient region 
 That a certain hero's name is Legion. 
 Nor was it only for once to be 
 That the whole herd together ran down to the sea. 
 
 Your zenith for no man else is true : 
 Your beam from the sun comes alone to you. 
 And the thought the great God gave your brain 
 Is your own for the world, or the world's in vain. 
 
 Edward Rowland Sill. 
 
44 Thoughts 
 
 Discontent is want of self-reliance : it is infirmity of 
 will. Emerson. 
 
 "He that brings sunshine into the lives of others 
 cannot keep it from himself." 
 
 Give us, oh, give us, the man who sings at his work ! 
 Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of 
 those who follow the same pursuit in silent suUen- 
 ness. He does more in the same time he will do it 
 better ^he will persevere longer. ^Carlyle. 
 
 Set about what thou intendest to do : the beginning 
 is half the battle. Casar. 
 
 By the street of By-and-By, one arrives at the house 
 of Never. ^Cervantes, 
 
 No wind serves him who has no destined port. 
 
 Montaigne. 
 
 Be sure you give men the best of your wares though 
 they be poor enough; and the gods will help you to 
 lay by a better store for the future. 
 
 Henry D. Thoreau. 
 
 Reading is indeed to the mind as food is to the 
 body the material of which its fibre is made. It is 
 surprising to note the difference in the quality of 
 mental thought which even one-half hour's good read- 
 ing each day will make. ^Lilian Whiting. 
 
Thoughts 45 
 
 Men are four: 
 He who knows, and knows he knows, 
 
 He is wise follow him. 
 He who knows, and knows not he knows, 
 
 He is asleep wake him : 
 He who knows not, and knows not he knows not, 
 
 He is a fool shun him. 
 He who knows not, and knows he knows not, 
 
 He is a child teach him. 
 
 Arabian Proverb, 
 
46 Thoughts 
 
 Cherish ideals as the traveler cherishes the north 
 star, and keep the guiding light pure and bright and 
 high above the horizon. ^Newell Dwight Hillis. 
 
 The days come and go like muffled and veiled fig- 
 ures sent from a distant friendly party; but they say 
 nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, 
 they carry them as silently away. ^Emerson, 
 
 'Tis not in seeking, 
 
 'Tis not in endless striving. 
 
 Thy quest is found. 
 Be still and listen. 
 Be still and drink the quiet 
 
 Of all around. . r. Sill 
 
 To keep one's foot firmly set in the way that leads 
 upwards, however dark and thorny it may be at the 
 moment, is to conquer. 
 
 The World Beautiful, Lilian Whiting. 
 
 And daily, hourly, loving and giving 
 In the poorest life makes heavenly living. 
 
 Rose Terry Cooke. 
 
 To love is the great glory, the last culture, the 
 highest happiness ; to be loved is little in comparison. 
 The Story of William and Lucy Smith, George S. Meriman. 
 
Thoughts 47 
 
 To persevere in one's duty, and to be silent, is the 
 best answer to calumny. Washington. 
 
 I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is 
 never to allow your energies to stagnate. 
 
 Adam Clarke. 
 
 Entertaining is the finest of all the fine arts, and it 
 cannot be done by proxy. It cannot be done by the 
 cook, nor yet by the decorator. Let the hostess give 
 her guests her personal interest, her sympathetic com- 
 prehension, and she will have then mastered the deli- 
 cate and subtle art. Lilian Whiting. 
 
 Read the best books first, or you may not have a 
 chance to read them at all. Henry D. Thoreau. 
 
 I am primarily engaged to myself to be a public serv- 
 ant to all the gods, to demonstrate to all men that 
 there is a good will and intelligence at the heart of 
 things, and ever higher and yet higher leadings. 
 
 Emerson. 
 
 Be noble, and the nobleness that lies 
 In other men, sleeping, but never dead. 
 Will rise in majesty to meet thine own ; 
 Then shalt thou see it gleam in many eyes, 
 Then will pure light about thy way be shed. 
 
 Lowell. 
 
48 Thoughts 
 
 Few causes age the body faster than wilful indo- 
 lence and monotony of mind the mind, that very 
 principle of physical youthfulness. 
 
 James Lane Allen. 
 
 "To speak wisely may not always be easy, but not 
 to speak ill requires only silence/' 
 
 If you have not slept, or if you have slept, or if you 
 have a headache, or sciatica, or leprosy, or thunder 
 stroke, I beseech you by all the angels to hold your 
 peace, and not pollute the morning, to which all the 
 housemates bring serene and pleasant thoughts, by 
 corruptions and groans. Emerson. 
 
 " 'Downward the path of life !' Oh, no ! 
 Up, up, with patient steps, I go ; 
 I watch the skies fast brightening there ; 
 I breathe a sweeter, purer air." 
 
 Happiness rarely is absent. It is we that know not 
 of its presence. The greatest felicity avails us noth- 
 ing if we know not that we are happy. 
 
 Maurice Materlinck. 
 
 There is no good in life but love ^but love ! 
 
 What else looks good, is some shade flung from love ; 
 
 L-ove gilds it, gives it worth. ---Robert Browning. 
 
^^u^^ '^^a^z^c^&J^i^^^^. 
 
 T 
 
 HE great thing in the ivorld is not so 
 much luhere ive stand, as in ivhat 
 direction we are moving. 
 
 48 
 
Thoughts 49 
 
 Instead of a gem, or even a flower, cast the gift of a 
 lovely thought into the heart of a friend. 
 
 Geo. Macdonald. 
 
50 Thoughts 
 
 Be satisfied with nothing but your best. 
 
 Edward Rowland Sill. 
 
 Do not think it wasted time to submit yourself to 
 any influence that will bring upon you any noble 
 feeling. Ruskin. 
 
 Thank God every morning when you get up that 
 you have something to do that day, which must be 
 done whether you like it or not. Being forced to 
 work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you 
 . . . a hundred virtues which the idle never know. 
 
 Charles Kingsley. 
 
 Foresight is very wise, but foresorrow is very fool- 
 ish ; and castles are, at any rate, better than dungeons 
 in the air. 5'tr John Lubbock. 
 
 It requires a sterner virtue than good nature to 
 hold fast the truth, that it is nobler to be shabby and 
 honest, than to do things handsomely in debt. 
 
 Juliana H. Ewing. 
 
 "Drop the subject when you cannot agree; there is 
 no need to be bitter because you know you are right." 
 
 It is not only a part of the wisdom of happiness, 
 but it is absolutely essential to the conditions of any 
 true work in the world, to so live that one may not be 
 too greatly affected by the attitude of other people. A 
 man's life is, after all, primarily between God and 
 himself. --Lilian Whiting. 
 
Thoughts 51 
 
 Get your distaff ready, and God will send you flax. 
 Mary A. Livermore's favorite proverb. 
 
 The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it 
 were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most val- 
 uable we have, and therefore should be secured, be- 
 cause they seldom return again. Locke. 
 
 The little worries that we meet each day 
 May be as stumbling-blocks across our way. 
 Or we may make them stepping-stones to be 
 Of grace, O Lord, to Thee ! A. E. Hamilton. 
 
 A man's own good breeding is the best security 
 against other people's ill manners. Chesterfield. 
 
 The best teacher of duties that still lie near to us, is 
 the practice of those we see and have at hand. 
 
 Carlyle. 
 
 "The secret of a sweet and Christian life is learn- 
 ing to live by the day. It is the long stretches that 
 tire us." 
 
 To one who is in the role of host there can be no 
 more bitter rebuke than to have any guest or chance 
 caller go out from the portals with the feeling that he 
 is sorry he came that he is depressed rather than up- 
 lifted. For all personal association, whether perma- 
 nent or transient, whether prearranged or a matter of 
 accidental contact, should leave behind it a lingering 
 charm, a deeper sense of the loveliness of life. 
 
 Lilian Whiting, 
 
52 Thoughts 
 
 One of the natural tendencies of the mortal mind is 
 toward proselyting. The moment we believe some- 
 thing to be true, we begin to try to convert others to 
 our belief. We learn to say, with some degree of real- 
 ization, "God worketh in me to will and to do of His 
 good pleasure," but we quite forget that the same God 
 is working equally in our brother "to will and to do." 
 "I am the door," says the Christ within every man's 
 own soul. Now you are trying to have your dear one 
 enter in through your door. He must enter in through 
 his own Christ, his own desire. 
 
 H. Emilie Cady. 
 
Thoughts 53 
 
 You may not be able to leave your children a great 
 inheritance, but day by day you may be weaving coats 
 for them which they will wear through all eternity. 
 
 T. L. Cuyler. 
 
 He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge 
 over which he must pass himself; for every man has 
 need to be forgiven. ^Lord Herbert. 
 
 We exhaust our strength in our impatience at our 
 work, and the conditions that surround us. There is 
 nothing that comes to us which we could not do easily 
 with true adjustment, but we waste our forces in our 
 worries. C. B. Newcomb. 
 
 It seems as if heroes had done almost all for the 
 world that they can do ; and not much more can come 
 until common men awake and take their common 
 tasks. I believe the common man's task is the hardest. 
 
 Phillips Brooks. 
 
 When we climb to heaven 'tis on the rounds of love 
 to men. Whittier. 
 
 When you find a person a little better than his word, 
 a little more liberal than his promise, a little more than 
 borne out in his statements by facts, a little larger 
 in deed than in speech, you recognize a kind of elo- 
 quence in that person's utterance not laid down in 
 Blair or Campbell. Holmes. 
 
54 Thoughts 
 
 Young man! let the nobleness of your mind impel 
 you to its improvement. You are too strong to be 
 defeated, save by yourself. W. D. Howard. 
 
 What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense 
 we are. Anna Jameson. 
 
 The mark of the man of the world is absence of 
 pretension. He does not make a speech, he takes a 
 low business tone, avoids all brag, promises not at all, 
 performs much. He calls his employment by its low- 
 est names, and so takes from evil tongues their sharp- 
 est weapon. ^Emerson. 
 
 "In judging others, weigh carefully the method 
 against the motive. If the latter be pure, be patient 
 and charitable, however different from your own the 
 method may be." 
 
 "Refuse to regard as. unfortunate the treatment you 
 receive from others ; let it stimulate you to deal more 
 justly with yourself and with them." 
 
 The strength of affection is a proof not of the worthi- 
 ness of the object, but of the largeness of the soul 
 which loves. ~F. W. Robertson. 
 
 Every flower is a hint of His beauty; every grain 
 of wheat a token of His beneficence; every atom of 
 dust, a revelation of His power. In and through all 
 things He is attracting our regard. Fumess. 
 
Thoughts 55 
 
 One never speaks of himself except at a loss. 
 
 Montaigne. 
 
 It is easy in the world, to live after the world's 
 opinion: it is easy in solitude, to live after our own. 
 But the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd 
 keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of soli- 
 tude. Emerson. 
 
 If you knew the light 
 That your soul casts in my sight. 
 
 How I look to you 
 
 For the good and true, 
 The beauteous and the right. 
 
 Robert Browning. 
 
 Manners impress as they indicate real power. A 
 man who is sure of his point, carries a broad and con- 
 tented expression, which everybody reads. And you 
 cannot rightly train one to an air and manner, except 
 by making him the kind of man of whom that manner 
 is the natural expression. Nature forever puts a pre- 
 mium on reality. Emerson. 
 
 Who looks to Heaven alone to save his soul 
 May keep the path, but will not reach the goal : 
 But he who walks in love may wander far, 
 And God will bring him where the blessed are. 
 
 Henry Van Dyke, 
 
56 Thoughts 
 
 'If you and I just you and I 
 Should laugh instead of worry ; 
 If we should grow just you and I 
 Kinder and sweeter hearted, 
 Perhaps in some near by and by 
 A good time might get started ; 
 Then what a happy world 'twould be 
 For you and me for you and me !" 
 
 Let nothing disturb thee, 
 Nothing affright thee; 
 All things are passing; 
 God never changeth; 
 Patient endurance 
 Attaineth to all things; 
 Who God possesseth 
 In nothing is wanting; 
 Alone God sufficeth. 
 
 Longfellow. 
 
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 g^ W E spoils his house and thronvs his pains 
 m m aivay 
 
 Whoy as the sun -veers ^ builds his 
 windoivs o\r^ 
 For should be ivait^ the light, some time of day, 
 fVould come and sit beside him in his door. 
 
 S6 
 
Thoughts 57 
 
 The world is full of judgment-days, and in every 
 assembly that a man enters, in every action he at- 
 tempts, he is gauged and stamped. A man passes for 
 what he is worth. Emerson. 
 
 Life is noble in proportion to the nobleness of faith ; 
 it is successful in proportion to the fixedness of faith. 
 
 Joseph Le Conte. 
 
 We should tell ourselves once for all that it is the 
 first duty of the soul to become as happy, complete, in- 
 dependent, and great as lies in its power. 
 
 Maurice Materlinck. 
 
 "Cold and reserved natures should remember that 
 though not infrequently flowers may be found be- 
 neath the snow, it is chilly work to dig for them, and 
 few care to take the trouble." 
 
 Whenever we send out loving thought in generous 
 profusion, every part of our environment echoes back 
 a sweet benediction. Henry Wood. 
 
 A good book, whether a novel or not, is one that 
 leaves you farther on than when you took it up. If 
 when you drop it, it drops you down in the same old 
 spot, with no finer outlook, no clearer vision, no stim- 
 ulated desires for that which is better and higher, it is 
 in no sense a good book. Anna Warner. 
 
58 Thoughts 
 
 Silence is a great peacemaker. Longfellow. 
 
 Each act of humble service is that divine touching 
 of the ground which enables one to get the spring 
 whereby he leaps to greater heights. R, W. Trine. 
 
 Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven 
 forever in the works of the world. Ruskin. 
 
 "It is no use running; to set out betimes is the 
 main point." 
 
 One ought never to speak of the faults of one's 
 friends; it mutilates them. They can never be the 
 same afterward. Willi<im D. Howells. 
 
 Whatever betide, every misfortune must be over- 
 come by enduring it. Virgil. 
 
 "Never argue with a man who talks loud. You 
 couldn't convince him in a thousand years." 
 
 The new science perceives that instincts and aspira- 
 tions in the mind are facts of nature that must be in- 
 terpreted and accounted for by reason as truly as a 
 stone in the hand. Newell Dwight Hillis. 
 
Thoughts 59 
 
 Work and love: that is the body and soul of the 
 human being. Happy he where they are one. 
 
 Auerhach. 
 
 You picture to yourself the beauty of bravery and 
 steadfastness. And then some little, wretched, dis- 
 agreeable duty comes which is your martyrdom, the 
 lamp for your oil ; and if you do not do it, your oil is 
 spilled. Phillips Brooks, 
 
 "Watch the thought you hold for the neighbor who 
 is yet living in the consciousness of truth as you un- 
 derstand it. As you are taught of the Spirit, so will 
 he be taught in the way best adapted to him." 
 
 Why do we so often prefer to believe in the neces- 
 sity of suffering and weakness rather than in the pos- 
 sibility of strength and gladness? C. B. Newcomh. 
 
 Great powers and natural gifts do not bring privi- 
 leges to their possessor, so much as they bring duties. 
 
 Henry Ward Beecher, 
 
 Every day should have some part 
 Free for the Sabbath of the heart. 
 
 Wordsworth. 
 
 The beautiful is as useful as the useful. 
 
 Victor Hugo. 
 
 The higher education of women means more for the 
 future than all conceivable legislative reforms. Its in- 
 fluence does not stop with the home. 
 
 David Starr Jordan. 
 
6o Thoughts 
 
 "It is not the spurt at the start, but the continued, 
 unresting, unhasting advance that wins the day." 
 
 That which is past is gone and irrevocable, and wise 
 men have enough to do with things present and to 
 come. Francis Bacon. 
 
 Whichever way the wind doth blow 
 Some heart is glad to have it so ; 
 Then blow it east or blow it west. 
 The wind that blows, that wind is best. 
 
 Caroline A. Mason. 
 
 A lady's dress should be such as to please God, not 
 laying aside taste, for is He not much more pleased 
 when His children look well than otherwise? I have 
 no idea that Christ was negligent of his dress. His 
 garment was one counted worthy of casting lots upon. 
 
 Mary Lyon. 
 
 Experience shows that success is due less to ability 
 than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to 
 his work, body and soul. Charles Buxton, 
 
 "The smelter bends above his pot of silver 
 Watching its restless heavings to and fro, 
 
 'Till ready for the careful coiner. 
 
 His face reflected, the fused metal show." 
 
Thoughts 6i 
 
 It is monotony which eats the heart out of joy, de- 
 stroys the buoyancy of the spirit, and turns hope to 
 ashes; it is monotony which saps the vitaHty of the 
 emotions ; depletes the energy of the will, and finally 
 turns the miracle of daily existence into dreary com- 
 monplace. And monotony has its roots, not in our 
 conditions, but in ourselves. 
 
 Hamilton Wright Mahie. 
 
 Begin, therefore, with little things. Is it a little oil 
 spilt or a little wine stolen? Say to yourself, this is 
 the price paid for peace and tranquillity ; and nothing 
 is to be had for nothing. And when you call your 
 servant, consider that it is possible he may not come 
 at your call, or, if he does, that he may not do what 
 you wish. But it is not at all desirable for him, and 
 very undesirable for you, that it should be in his power 
 to cause you any disturbance. Epictetus. 
 
 Let us never forget that an act of goodness is of 
 itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after 
 the event can compare with the sweet reward that went 
 with it. Maurice Materlinck. 
 
 I said, "I will go out and look for mine enemies," 
 and that day I found no friends. Again, I said, "I 
 will go out and look for my friends," and that day I 
 found no enemies. Gertrude R. Lewis. 
 
62 Thoughts 
 
 Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be 
 the character of thy mind, for the soul is dyed by the 
 thoughts. Marcus Aurelius. 
 
 Have faithfulness and sincerity as first principles. 
 
 Confucius. 
 
 "If you will call your 'troubles* 'experiences,' and 
 remember that every experience develops some latent 
 force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, 
 however adverse your circumstances may seem to be." 
 
 Wanting to have a friend is altogether different 
 from wanting to be a friend. The former is a mere 
 natural human craving, the latter is the life of Christ 
 in the soul. /. R. Miller. 
 
 When we cultivate thoughts of strength for others, 
 we ourselves grow strong. Habitual thoughts of 
 peace bring us tranquillity. C. B. Newcomh, 
 
 All high happiness has in it some element of love; 
 all love contains a desire for peace. One immediate 
 effect of new happiness is to make us turn toward the 
 past with a wish to straighten out its difficulties, heal 
 its breaches and forgive its wrongs. 
 
 James Lane Allen. 
 
Thoughts 63 
 
 When I am very weary 
 
 I do not try to pray. 
 I only shut my eyes, and wait 
 To hear what God will say. 
 Such rest it is to wait for Him 
 
 As comes no other way. 
 
 Alice E. Worcester, 
 
64 Thoughts 
 
 You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have 
 fulfilled that of being pleasant. Charles Buxton. 
 
 We do a great deal of shirking in this life on the 
 ground of not being geniuses. Rose E. Cleveland. 
 
 We never know for what God is preparing us in 
 His schools for what work on earth, for what work 
 in the hereafter. Our business is to do our work 
 well in the present place, whatever that may be. 
 
 Dr. Lyman Abbott. 
 
 Health is the first of all liberties, and happiness 
 gives us the energy which is the basis of health. 
 
 Amiel's Journal, 
 
 Not in the clamor of the crowded street. 
 Nor in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, 
 But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat. 
 
 Longfellow. 
 
 Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that 
 you are dreadfully like other people. 
 
 James Russell Lowell. 
 
 There is a dust that settles on the heart as well as 
 that which rests upon the ledge. It is better to wear 
 out than to rust out. S'tV John Lubbock. 
 
 How many a thing which we cast to the ground, 
 when others pick it up becomes a gem. 
 
 George Meredith. 
 
c^^. -^. ^^-^ 
 
 5^ 
 
 UCCESS in life is a matter not so much 
 of talent or opportunity as of concentra- 
 tion and perseverance. 
 
 r.4 
 
Thoughts 65 
 
 Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind 
 braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no 
 such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good 
 weather. Ruskin. 
 
 A haze on the far horizon 
 
 The infinite, tender sky ; 
 
 The ripe, rich tint of the corn-fields. 
 
 And the wild geese sailing high ; 
 
 And all over upland and lowland 
 
 The charm of the golden-rod, 
 
 Some of us call it Autumn 
 
 And others call it God. M. H. Carruth. 
 
 I built a chimney for a comrade old, 
 I did the service not for hope or hire, 
 
 And then I traveled on in winter's cold ; 
 Yet all the day I glowed before the fire. 
 
 Edwin Markham. 
 
 Flowers, says Ruskin, seem intended for the solace 
 of ordinary humanity. Children love them; quiet, 
 tender, contented, ordinary people love them as they 
 grow; they are the cottager's treasure; and in the 
 crowded town mark, as with a little broken fragment 
 of rainbow, the windows of the workers in whose heart 
 rests the covenant of peace. 
 
66 Thoughts 
 
 Great privileges never go save in company with 
 great responsibilities. Hamilton W. Mahie. 
 
 He who has a high standard of living and thinking 
 will certainly do better than he who has none at all. 
 
 Samuel Smiles. 
 
 You will find as you look back upon your life that 
 the moments that stand out, the moments when you 
 have really lived, are the moments when you have 
 done things in a spirit of love. Henry Drummond. 
 
 And let him go where he will, he can only find so 
 much beauty or worth as he carries. Emerson. 
 
 As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you 
 will find what is needful for you in a book, or a 
 friend, or, best of all, in your own thoughts, the eter- 
 nal thought speaking in your thought. 
 
 George Macdonald. 
 
 Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life ! 
 The evening beam that smiles the clouds away 
 And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray. 
 
 Byron. 
 
 Displays of moral excellence, truths set forth in 
 living actions, are multiplied as they are shown. Men 
 are won by what they approve. They are led to imi- 
 tate what they admire. Laudable actions never stand 
 alone. They go from eye to eye, from heart to heart, 
 creating fresh copies of their immortal worth. 
 
 Dr. Frothingham. 
 
Thoughts 67 
 
 Wouldst shape a noble life ? Then cast 
 No backward glances toward the past, 
 And though somewhat be lost and gone, 
 Yet do thou act as one new-born ; 
 What each day needs, that shalt thou ask, 
 Each day will set its proper task. 
 
 Goethe, 
 
68 Thoughts 
 
 We should think just as though our thought were 
 visible to all about us. Real character is not outward 
 conduct, but quality of thinking. Henry Wood, 
 
 It is a much shallower and more ignoble occupation 
 to detect faults than to discover beauties. Carlyle, 
 
 Whatever you wish to accomplish, be willing to do, 
 and to commence your work at once, right where you 
 find yourself, and decide that you do not want any- 
 thing better to begin with than the conditions that 
 surround you, for God is with you. Raja Yoga, 
 
 No one is respectable who is not doing his best. 
 
 Horace Fletcher, 
 
 The broad-minded see the truth in different re- 
 ligions; the narrow-minded see only their differences. 
 
 Chinese Proverb. 
 
 The dawn is not distant. 
 Nor is the night starless; 
 
 Love is eternal! 
 God is still God, and 
 His faith shall not fail us ; 
 
 Christ is eternal ! Longfellow, 
 
 Let us be like the bird for a moment perched 
 
 On a frail branch while he sings ; 
 Though he feels it bend, yet he sings his song, 
 
 Knowing that he hath wings. Victor Hugo, 
 
Thoughts 69 
 
 Let us love so well 
 Our work shall still be sweeter for our love. 
 And still our love be sweeter for our work. 
 
 Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 
 
 "If you have gracious words to say 
 Oh, give them to our hearts to-day, 
 But if your words will cause us sorrow. 
 Pray keep them till the last to-morrow." 
 
 High thoughts and noble in all lands 
 Help me : my soul is fed by such. 
 But ah, the touch of life and hands. 
 
 The human touch ! 
 Warm, vital, close, lifers symbols dear, 
 These need I most, and now, and here. 
 
 --Richard Burton, 
 
70 Thoughts 
 
 To live in the presence of great truths and eternal 
 lawSj to be led by permanent ideals, that is what 
 keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and 
 calm and unspoiled when the world praises him. 
 
 Dr. A. Peabody. 
 
 The test of an enjoyment is the remembrance which 
 it leaves behind. -Jean Paul. 
 
 No education is complete, nor, indeed, of great per- 
 manent value, that does not teach how to live con- 
 tentedly and to economize nerve energy. 
 
 Mary Roberts Smith. 
 
 I have seen manners that make a similar impression 
 with personal beauty, that give us the like exhilara- 
 tion, and refine us like that. But they must be marked 
 by fine perception, they must always show self-con- 
 trol. Then they must be inspired by the good heart. 
 
 Emerson. 
 
 Patience! have faith and thy prayer will be an- 
 swered. Longfellow. 
 
 "Sentiment cannot do duty for humanity." 
 
 The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and 
 in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in will- 
 ing service. ^Longfellow. 
 
Thoughts 71 
 
 We find in life exactly what we put into it. 
 
 Emerson. 
 
 Every duty we omit oDscures some truth we should 
 have known. Ruskin. 
 
 From Socrates to Browning the thinkers and poets 
 have all been emancipators. In the end, this bringing 
 of new light into the minds of the world will be 
 counted their chief service. Hamilton W. Mabie. 
 
 By all means use sometimes to be alone. 
 Salute thyself : see what thy soul doth wear. 
 Dare to look in thy chest for 'tis thine own, 
 And tumble up and down what thou findest there. 
 Who cannot rest till he good fellows finde, 
 He breaks up house, turns out of doors his minde. 
 
 George Herbert. 
 
 Personal happiness is almost synonymous with per- 
 sonal interests; the wider the range of the latter, the 
 higher is the degree of happiness. Lilian Whiting. 
 
 Thoughts of courage, and hope, and highest expec- 
 tation growing habitual, may lift out and up many a 
 weary pilgrim. L. Purington. 
 
 "The ornaments of a home are the guests who fre- 
 quent it." 
 
72 Thoughts 
 
 Do not waste a minute not a second in trying to 
 demonstrate to others the merit of your own perform- 
 ance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you can- 
 not vindicate it. Thomas Wentworth Higginson. 
 
 To go about moping, depressed, blue, out of spirits 
 in general, is to exist, but not to live. It is the condi- 
 tion of a mollusk, and unworthy a human being. 
 Worry is a state of spiritual corrosion. A trouble 
 either can be remedied, or it cannot. If it can be, 
 then set about it ; if it cannot be, dismiss it from your 
 consciousness, or bear it so bravely that it may become 
 transfigured to a blessing. Lilian Whiting, 
 
 "It is easy enough to be pleasant 
 
 When life flows by like a song, 
 But the man worth while is the man who will smile 
 
 When everything goes dead wrong ; 
 For the test of the heart is trouble. 
 
 And it always comes with years. 
 And the smile that comes with the praises of earth 
 
 Is the smile that shines through tears." 
 
 I think we should treat our minds as innocent chil- 
 dren whose guardian we are ^be careful what ob- 
 jects and what subjects we thrust on their attention. 
 
 Henry D. Thoreau. 
 
Thoughts 73 
 
 Gather roses while they blossom; to-morrow is not 
 to-day 1 Allow no moment to escape; to-morrow is 
 not to-day, Gleim. 
 
 Cheapness of nature can be redeemed only from one 
 source that of the invisible power on the divine side 
 of life- By seeking this in silence and concentration 
 for a little time each day all refinement and loveliness 
 and charm can be achieved. It is the magic of life. 
 The World Beautiful, Lilian Whiting, 
 
 I have wished to teach a single lesson, true alike to 
 all men the lesson of the saving of time. 
 
 David Starr Jordan. 
 
 There are so many things ^best things that can 
 only come when youth is past, that it may well hap- 
 pen to many of us to find ourselves happier and hap- 
 pier to the last. George Eliot, 
 
 This world is no blot for us 
 Nor blank ; it means intensely, and means good. 
 
 Browning, 
 
 Poetry frequents and keeps habitable those upper 
 chambers of the mind that open toward the sun's 
 rising. James Russell Lowell, 
 
74 Thoughts 
 
 The individual who cultivates grievances, and who 
 is perpetually exacting explanations of his assumed 
 wrongs, can only be ignored, and left to the education 
 of time and of development. . . . One does not 
 argue or contend with the foul miasma that settles over 
 stagnant water; one leaves it and climbs to a higher 
 region, where the air is pure and the sunshine fair. 
 
 Lilian Whiting. 
 
 "Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its 
 iway through the world." 
 
 Let not future things disturb thee, for thou wilt 
 come to them if it shall be necessary, having with thee 
 the same reason which thou now usest for present 
 things. ^Marcus Aurelius. 
 
 We hear much said of "environment." We need 
 to realize that environment should never be allowed to 
 make the man, but that man should always, and always 
 can, condition the environment. When we realize this, 
 we will find that many times it is not necessary to take 
 ourselves out of any particular environment, because 
 we may yet have a work to do there ; but by the very 
 force we carry with us, we can so affect and change 
 matters that we will have an entirely new set of conr 
 ditions in an old environment. 
 
 Ralph Waldo Trine, 
 
Thoughts 75 
 
 FABLE. 
 
 The mountain and the squirrel 
 
 Had a quarrel, 
 
 And the former called the latter "Little Prig"; 
 
 Bun replied, 
 
 "You are doubtless very big ; 
 
 But all sorts of things and weather 
 
 Must be taken in together, 
 
 To make up a year 
 
 And a sphere. 
 
 And I think it no disgrace 
 
 To occupy my place. 
 
 If I'm not so large as you, 
 
 You are not so small as I, 
 
 And not half so spry. 
 
 I'll not deny you make 
 
 A very pretty squirrel track ; 
 
 Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; 
 
 If I cannot carry forests on my back, 
 
 Neither can you crack a nut." Emerson, 
 
76 Thoughts 
 
 O the paralyzing effect of fear of evil! It surely 
 doth make "cowards of us all." It makes us pygmies 
 where we might be giants, were we only free from it. 
 
 H. Emilie Cady. 
 
 As you grow old, guard against the tendency to 
 live more coarsely, to relax in your discipline. Obey 
 your finest instincts. Be fastidious to the extreme of 
 sanity. ^Thoreau. 
 
 "Then let us smile when skies are gray, 
 And laugh at stormy weather. 
 And sing life's lonesome times away : 
 So worry and the dreariest day 
 Will find an end together." 
 
 Character is not only written in the face, expressed 
 in conduct and language, but is sent forth as a thought 
 atmosphere. ^Dresser. 
 
 Others shall 
 Take patience, courage, to their heart and hand 
 From thy hand and thy heart and thy brave cheer. 
 And God's grace fructify through thee to all. 
 
 Elisabeth Barrett Browning, 
 
 To love one soul for its beauty and grace and truth 
 is to open the way to appreciate all beautiful and true 
 and gracious souls, and to recognize spiritual beauty 
 wherever it is seen. H. Black. 
 
Thoughts 77 
 
 We must alter for the better always and unceas- 
 ingly. Nature seems to be at rest only because she is 
 perpetually renewed. The soul enjoys repose on the 
 same terms. De Ravignon. 
 
 God gives us power to bear all the sorrows of His 
 making: but He does not give the power to bear the 
 sorrows of our own making, which the anticipation of 
 sorrow most assuredly is -Ian MacLaren, 
 
 Ever laughs the sunlight in our eyes at morning and 
 
 at noon, 
 Comes the pure, cool wind, to whisper past our cheek 
 
 its cheery tune, 
 Just to tell us Earth is beautiful, and at the quiet even 
 Every star looks down lest we forget that earth is 
 
 crowned with Heaven. . R, Sill. 
 
 "The whole world unites in pushing us the way we 
 have really made up our mind to go." 
 
 Without distinction, without calculation, without 
 procrastination, love. Lavish it upon the poor, where 
 it is very easy; especially upon the rich, who often 
 need it most ; most of all upon our equals, where it is 
 very difficult, and for whom perhaps we each do least 
 of all. Henry Drumtnond 
 
78 Thoughts 
 
 Are you in earnest ? Seize this very minute ! 
 What you can do, or think you can, begin it ! 
 
 Goethe. 
 
 T is better to live rich than to die rich, 
 
 Dr. Johnson. 
 
 It seems to me there is no maxim for a noble life 
 like this: Count always your highest moments your 
 truest moments. Believe that in the time when you 
 were the greatest and most spiritual man, then you 
 were your truest self. Phillips Brooks. 
 
 Fine society is the graceful, genial, sympathetic 
 intercourse of fine souls. Lilian Whiting. 
 
 The stream of content must flow from ourselves, 
 taking its source from a deliberate disposition to learn 
 what is good, and a determined resolution to seek for 
 and enjoy it, however small the portion may be. 
 
 Zimmerman. 
 
 When you have a number of disagreeable duties 
 to perform, always do the most disagreeable first. 
 
 Josiah Quincy. 
 
 God says, live deeply, earnestly in the present, and 
 the spirit of all the ages shall come and reveal itself 
 to you. Phillips Brooks. 
 
Thoughts 70 
 
 To try too hard to make people good is one way to 
 make them worse. The only way to make them good, 
 is to be good, remembering well the beam and the 
 mote. George Macdonald. 
 
 "Ask God to give thee skill 
 
 For comfort's art, 
 That thou may'st consecrated be. 
 
 And set apart 
 Unto a life of sympathy ! 
 For comforters are needed much 
 
 Of Christ-like touch." 
 
 For he that wrongs his friend 
 Wrongs himself more, and ever bears about 
 A silent court of justice in his breast. 
 Himself the judge and jury, and himself 
 The prisoner at the bar, ever condemned. 
 
 Tennyson. 
 
 The sense of humor is the oil of life's engine. With- 
 out it, the machinery creaks and grroans. No lot is so 
 hard, no aspect of things is so grim, but it relaxes be- 
 fore a hearty laugh. G. S. Merriam. 
 
 The happiest heart that ever beat 
 
 Was in some quiet breast, 
 That found the common daylight sweet 
 
 And left to Heaven the rest. 
 
 John Vance Cheney. 
 
8o Thoughts 
 
 "Of all work," said the Bishop of Exeter, "that 
 produces results, nine-tenths must be drudgery. There 
 is no work, from the highest to the lowest, which can 
 be done well by any man who is unwilling to make 
 that sacrifice." 
 
 It is a hard thing to close up a discourse and to 
 cut it short, when you are once in, and have a great 
 deal more to say. There is nothing wherein the 
 strength and breeding of a horse is so much seen as in 
 a round, graceful, and sudden stop. Montaigne. 
 
 Greatly begin! though thou have time 
 But for a line, be that sublime 
 Not failure, but low aim, is crime. 
 
 James Russell Lowell. 
 
 Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? 
 Yes; work never begun. Christina Rossetti. 
 
 When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice 
 on others, it is usually because we suspect their weak- 
 ness ; but we ought rather to suspect our own. 
 
 Colt on. 
 
 Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will 
 cleanse and brighten it. Dr. Johnson. 
 
z 
 
 ET us be of good cheer, rememhering that 
 the misfortunes hardest to bear are those 
 which never come. 
 
Thoughts 8i 
 
 Efforts to be permanently useful, must be uniformly 
 joyous a spirit all sunshine ^graceful from very 
 gladness, beautiful because bright. Carlyle, 
 
 Read the philosophers, and learn how to make life 
 happy; seeking useful precepts and brave and noble 
 words which may become deeds. -Seneca. 
 
 "I pray the prayer of Pluto old ; 
 
 God make thee beautiful within, 
 And let thine eye the good behold 
 In everything save sin." 
 
 Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gen- 
 tle as real strength. 5"^. Francis de Sales. 
 
 Oh! square thyself for use; a stone that may 
 Fit in the wall is left not in the way. 
 
 R. C. French. 
 
 The best piece of good fortune which can come 
 to one is opportunity for intimacy with a leader, in 
 whatever line of life he may be engaged. 
 
 Edward Everett Hale. 
 
 God has delivered yourself to your care, and says: 
 "I had no fitter to trust than you." ^Epictetus. 
 
82 Thoughts 
 
 I gazed on the throng of hurrying faces, 
 Some in tatters and some in laces, 
 And I said to myself, "How will it be, 
 When the soul of each is at last set free?*' 
 
 For she who is plainest and most forlorn. 
 May, by her beauty, God's heaven adorn; 
 While she who is fairest of form and face, 
 May, near God's beautiful, look out of place. 
 
 So I said, "How, my soul, will it be with thee?" 
 
 Laura Barker. 
 
Thoughts 83 
 
 Half the world is on the wrong scent in the pur- 
 suit of happiness. They think it consists in having and 
 getting, and in being served by others. It consists in 
 giving and in serving others. --Henry Drummond. 
 
 What we like determines what we are, and is the 
 sign of what we are; and to teach taste is inevitably 
 to form character. Ruskin, 
 
 One feast of holy days the crest 
 I, though no Churchman, love to keep; 
 
 All-Saints the unkncwn good that rest 
 In God's still memory folded deep. 
 
 Lowell. 
 
 Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves. 
 
 Horace Mann. 
 
 Of nothing may we be more sure than this, that 
 if we cannot sanctify our present lot, we could sanctify 
 no other. Our heaven and our Almighty Father are 
 there or nowhere. Dr. James Martineau. 
 
 "Whether in large or small affairs, there must be 
 perpetual adjustment. Neither men nor women, more 
 than our finely strung musical instruments can escape 
 the need of constant tuning." 
 
84 Thoughts 
 
 As nothing reveals character like the company we 
 like and keep, so nothing foretells futurity like the 
 thoughts over which we brood. 
 
 Newell Dwight Hillis. 
 
 Simply do the best you know, then trust. He who 
 seeks to live by the Spirit and who cares above all 
 for that, will not be without guidance. 
 
 Horatio W. Dresser. 
 
 Though to-day may not fulfill 
 
 All thy hopes, have patience still; 
 
 For perchance to-morrow's sun 
 
 Sees thy happier day begun. F. Gerhardt. 
 
 There are beautiful things far out in the years: 
 Can we not bear bravely some burdens and fears ? 
 From Dream Land Sent, Lilian Whiting. 
 
 The years 
 Have taught some sweet, some bitter lessons, non 
 Wiser than this, to spend in all things else, 
 But of old friends to be most miserly. Lowell. 
 
 "It is better to endure all the frowns and anger of 
 the greatest on earth, than to have an uneasy con- 
 science within our breast. O, let the bird in the soul 
 be always kept singing whatsoever one may suffer." 
 
Thoughts 85 
 
 The men and women that are lifting the world 
 upward and onward are those who encourage more 
 than criticise. Elisabeth Harrison. 
 
 I ought not to pronounce judgment on a fellow 
 creature until I know all that enters into his life ; until 
 I can measure all the forces of temptation and resist- 
 ance; until I can give full weight to all the facts in 
 the case. In other words, I am never in a position 
 to judge another. Hamilton W, Mabie, 
 
 What I am thinking and doing day by day is re- 
 sistlessly shaping my future a future in which there 
 is no expiation except through my own better conduct. 
 No one can save me. No one can live my life for me. 
 If I am wise I shall begin to-day to build my own 
 truer and better world from within. 
 
 H. W, Dresser. 
 
 I am an enemy to long explanation; they deceive 
 either the maker or the hearer^ generally both. 
 
 Goethe. 
 
 He who is false to present duty, breaks a thread 
 in the loom, and will find a flaw, when he may have 
 forgotten the cause. Henry Ward Beecher. 
 
86 Thoughts 
 
 "When the outlook is not good, try the uplook." 
 
 Every advance we make toward the reaHzation of the 
 truth of the permanence and immanence of law, brings 
 us nearer to Him, who is the First Cause of all law 
 and all phenomena. David Starr Jordan. 
 
 When in the mid-day march we meet 
 The outstretched shadows of the night. 
 
 The promise, how divinely sweet, 
 "At eventide, it shall be light." 
 
 Alice Cary. 
 
 You are never to complain of your birth, your 
 training, your employments, your hardships; never to 
 fancy that you could be something if only you had a 
 different lot and sphere assigned you. God under- 
 stands his own plan, and He knows what you want a 
 great deal better than you do yourself. H. Bushnell. 
 
 Soar on and up, it's God projecting as it goes, 
 Expanding into love and joy and peace but not re- 
 pose. W. W. Story. 
 
 "If you would have a happy family life, remember 
 two things : in matters of principle, stand like a rock ; 
 in matters of taste, swim with the current." 
 
Thoughts 87 
 
 Leam not only by a comet's rush, but by a rose's 
 blush. Browning. 
 
 When the Kingdom is once found, life ceases to be 
 a plodding, and becomes an exaltation, an ecstasy, a 
 joy. R. W. Trine. 
 
 Immortality will come to such as are fit for it ; and 
 he who would be a great soul in the future must be a 
 great soul now. Emerson. 
 
 There is no kind of bondage which life lays upon us 
 that may not yield both sweetness and strength; and 
 nothing reveals a man's character more fully than the 
 spirit in which he bears his limitations. 
 
 Hamilton W, Mabie, 
 
 The vision of things to be done may come a long 
 time before the way of doing them appears clear. But 
 woe to him who distrusts the vision. 
 
 Jenkin Lloyd Jones, 
 
 "Every day is a fresh beginning, 
 
 Listen, my soul, to the glad refrain; 
 And, spite of old sorrow and older sinning, 
 Take heart with the day and begin again." 
 
 In order to manage children well, we must borrow 
 their eyes and their hearts, see and feel as they do, and 
 judge them from their own point of view. 
 
 I pray God to make parents reasonable. 
 
 Eugenie de Guerin, 
 
88 Thoughts 
 
 The finest culture comes from the study of men m 
 their best moods. ^Plutarch. 
 
 Far away there in the sunshine are my highest as- 
 pirations; I cannot reach them, but I can look up and 
 see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow 
 where they lead. Louisa May Alcott. 
 
 No power in society, no hardship in your condition 
 can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, 
 virtue, influence, but by your own consent. 
 
 Channing. 
 
 Contentment comes neither by culture nor by wish- 
 ing; it is reconciliation with our lot, growing out of 
 an inward superiority to our surroundings. 
 
 Rev. J. K. McLean. 
 
 At times it is only necessary to rest one's self in 
 silence for a few minutes, in order to take off the 
 pressure and become wonderfully refreshed. 
 
 Dresser. 
 
 Touchiness, when it becomes chronic, is a morbid 
 condition of the inward disposition. 
 
 It is self-love inflamed to the acute point. 
 
 Drummond. 
 
 It is not written, blessed is he that feedeth the poor, 
 but he that considereth the poor. A little thought and 
 a little kindness are often worth more than a great 
 deal of money. ^Ruskin. 
 
Thoughts 89 
 
 For life, with all its yields of joy and woe 
 And hope and fear, believe the aged friend, 
 
 Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love ; 
 How love might be, hath been indeed, and is ; 
 
 And that we hold henceforth to the uttermost 
 Such prize despite the envy of the world. 
 
 And having gained truth, keep truth, that is all. 
 
 Robert Browning, 
 
90 Thoughts 
 
 Oh, do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger 
 men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. 
 Pray for powers equal to your tasks ! Then the doing 
 of your work shall be no miracle. But you shall be 
 a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, 
 at the richness of life which has come in you by the 
 grace of God. Phillips Brooks, 
 
 What does your anxiety do? It does not empty 
 to-morrow, brother, of its sorrow; but ah! it empties 
 to-day of its strength. It does not make you escape 
 the evil; it makes you unfit to cope with it if it 
 comes. Ian MacLaren. 
 
 If you wish to be miserable, think about yourself, 
 about what you want, what you like, what respect peo- 
 ple ought to pay you ; and then to you nothing will be 
 pure. You will spoil everything you touch, you will 
 make misery for yourself out of everything which God 
 sends you : you will be as wretched as you choose. 
 
 Charles Kingsley, 
 
 But on God*s dial-plate of time, 
 
 *Tis never late to him who stands 
 Self-centred in a trust sublime, 
 
 With mastered force and thinking hands. 
 
 Minot /. Savage, 
 
 "Look for the light that the shadow proves." 
 
Thoughts 91 
 
 Oh, the little birds sang East, 
 
 and the little birds sang West, 
 And I smiled to think God's 
 
 greatness flowed around our incompleteness. 
 Round our restlessness. His rest. 
 
 E. B. Browning. 
 
 Be thrifty, but not covetous : therefore give 
 
 Thy need, thine honor, and thy friend his due. 
 
 Never was scraper brave man. Get to live; 
 
 Then live, and use it : else it is not true 
 That thou hast gotten. Surely use alone 
 Makes money not a contemptible stone. 
 
 George Herbert. 
 
 "I do not deem that it matters not 
 
 How you live your life below ; 
 It matters much to the heedless crowd 
 
 That you see go to and fro; 
 For all that is noble and high and good 
 
 Has an influence on the rest. 
 And the world is better for everyone 
 
 Who is living at his best." 
 
 Let us beware of losing our enthusiasm. Let us 
 ever glory in something, and strive to attain our ad- 
 miration for all that would ennoble, and our interest 
 in all that would enrich and beautify our life. 
 
 Phillips Brooks. 
 
92 Thoughts 
 
 A high purpose is magnetic and attracts rich re- 
 sources. Lilian Whiting. 
 
 Be firm : one certain element in luck 
 Is genuine, solid old Teutonic pluck. 
 
 Oliver Wendell Holmes, 
 
 Not only to say the right thing in the right place, 
 but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong 
 thing at the tempting moment. 
 
 George Augustus Sola, 
 
 It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can 
 catch during the day, if one really sets about it. 
 
 Dinah Maria Mulock, 
 
 So I will trudge with heart elate, 
 
 And feet with courage shod, 
 For that which men call chancy and fate 
 
 Is the handiwork of God. Alice Gary. 
 
 "This world is a difficult world indeed. 
 And people are hard to suit. 
 And the man who plays on the violin 
 Is a bore to the man with a flute." 
 
 No man can be provident of his time who is not 
 prudent in the choice of his company. 
 
 Jeremy Taylor, 
 
Thoughts 93 
 
 Every great man is always being helped by every- 
 body ; for his gift is to get good out of all things and 
 all persons. Ruskin. 
 
 Belief in compensation, or that nothing is got for 
 nothing, characterizes all valuable minds. 
 
 Emerson. 
 
 Never shrink from anything which your business 
 calls you to do. The man who is above his business 
 may one day find his business above him. Drew, 
 
 The common problem, yours, mine, every one's. 
 Is not to fancy what were fair in life. 
 Provided it could be but finding first 
 What may be, then find how to make it fair 
 Up to our means. Browning. 
 
 Every life that has God in it has the index to char- 
 acter and the key to the highest attainment. 
 
 L. Purington, 
 
 Be resolutely and faithfully what you are ; be humbly 
 what you aspire to be. Man's noblest gift to man is 
 his sincerity, for it embraces his integrity also. 
 
 Henry D. Thoreau. 
 
94 Thoughts 
 
 We often do more good by our sympathy than by 
 our labors. Canon Farrar. 
 
 Dost thou love life ? Then waste not time ; for time 
 is the stuff that life is made of. Benjamin Franklin. 
 
 The best way of training the young, is to train your- 
 self at the same time ; not to admonish them, but to be 
 seen always doing that of which you would admon- 
 ish them. Plato. 
 
 It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place, 
 as if you meant to spend your life there, never omit- 
 ting an opportunity of doing a kindness, or speaking a 
 true word, or making a friend. Ruskin. 
 
 Landor's definition of a great man: He who can 
 call together the most select company when it pleases 
 him. 
 
 We go apart to get still ; that new life, new inspira- 
 tion, new power of thought, new supplies from the 
 Fountainhead, may flow in. //. Emilie Cady. 
 
 Perhaps it is a good thing to have an unsound hobby 
 ridden hard ; for it is sooner ridden to death. 
 
 Charles Dickens. 
 
Thoughts 95 
 
 "Take a dash of water cold 
 
 And a little leaven of prayer, 
 A little bit of sunshine gold 
 
 Dissolved in the morning air ; 
 Add to your meal some merriment 
 
 And a thought for kith and kin; 
 And then, as a prime ingredient 
 
 A plenty of work thrown in : 
 But spice it all with the essence of love 
 
 And a little whiff of play : 
 Let a wise old book and a glance above 
 
 Complete a well spent day." 
 
96 Thoughts 
 
 Judge not thy friend until thou standest in his place. 
 
 Rabbi Hillel 
 
 "He who is always inquiring what people will say, 
 will never give them opportunity to say anything great 
 about him." 
 
 Borrowing is the canker and the ^eath of every 
 man's estate. Sir Walter Raleigh. 
 
 It is not so much what you say to the children that 
 charges the atmosphere of your home, as it is the 
 spirit of your life, the temper you exhibit, the ends 
 which you live for. Dr. J. K. McLean. 
 
 Punishment closely follows sin, it being born at the 
 same time with it. Whoever expects punishment, al- 
 ready suffers it ; whoever has deserved it, expects it. 
 
 Montaigne. 
 
 I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to 
 maintain what I consider the most enviable of all 
 titles, that of an "Honest Man." 
 
 George Washington. 
 
 Trust in God, as Moses did, let the way be never so 
 dark; and it shall come to pass that your life at last 
 shall surpass even your longing. Not, it may be, in 
 the line of that longing; that shall be as it pleaseth 
 God; but the glory is as sure as the grace, and the 
 most ancient heavens are not more sure than that. 
 
 Robert Collyer. 
 
V 
 
 A 
 
 LL service ranks the same with God 
 There is no last or first. 
 
Thodghts 97 
 
 Men suffer all their life long under the foolish su- 
 perstition that they can be cheated. But it is as im- 
 possible for a man to be cheated by anyone but him- 
 self, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same 
 time. There is a third silent party to all our bargains. 
 The nature and soul of things takes on itself the 
 guaranty of the fulfilment of every contract, so that 
 honest service cannot come to loss. If you serve an 
 ungrateful master, serve him the more. Put God in 
 your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer 
 the payment is withholden, the better for you; for 
 compound interest on compound interest is the rate 
 and usage of this exchequer. --Emerson. 
 
 I believe if we could only see beforehand what it is 
 that our Heavenly Father means us to be, the soul 
 beauty and perfection and glory, the glorious and 
 lovely spiritual body that this soul is to dwell in 
 through all eternity, if we could have a glimpse of this, 
 we should not grudge all the trouble and pains he is 
 taking with us now to bring us up to that ideal which 
 is his thought of us. Annie Keary, 
 
 Let thy every word and act be perfect truth, ut- 
 tered in genuine love. Let not the forms of business, 
 or the conventional arrangements of society reduce thee 
 into falsehood. Be true to thyself. Be true to thy 
 friend. Be true to the world. Lydia Maria Child. 
 
98 Thoughts 
 
 Infidelity to self is infidelity to God. 
 
 Charles B. Newcomh. 
 
 Learn to handle and control the ignorant part of 
 your being as you would watch and guide a child. 
 Hold thought and expression to your highest ideal. 
 Learn from your failure. 
 
 God's Light as It Came to Me. 
 
 Self reliance is the basis of behavior, as it is the 
 guaranty that the powers are not squandered in too 
 much demonstration. Emerson. 
 
 For not in far-off realms of space 
 
 The Spirit hath its throne ; 
 
 In every heart it findeth place 
 
 And waiteth to be known. F. L. Hosmer, 
 
 Difficulties may surround our path; but if the dif- 
 ficulties be not in ourselves, they may generally be 
 overcome. Prof. Jowett. 
 
 Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but 
 of little things, in which smiles and kindnesses and 
 small obligations, given habitually, are what win and 
 preserve the heart and secure comfort. 
 
 Sir Humphrey Davy. 
 
Thoughts 99 
 
 He that respects himself is safe from others ; 
 He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. 
 
 Longfellow, 
 
 Chilo, having had the question put to him, What is 
 difficult? said: "To be silent about secrets; to make 
 good use of one's leisure ; and to be able to submit to 
 injustice." 
 
 We should every day call ourselves to an account. 
 What infirmity have I mastered to-day? What temp- 
 tation have I resisted? What virtue acquired? Our 
 vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every 
 day to the shrift, Seneca. 
 
 Life is something, while the senses heed 
 
 The spirit's call ; 
 Life is nothing, when our grosser need 
 
 Engulfs it all. Julia Ward Howe. 
 
 The true spirit of conversation consists in building 
 on another man's observation, not overturning it. 
 
 Bulwer. 
 
 Revery is the Sunday of thought; and who knows 
 which is the more important and fruitful for man, the 
 laborious tension of the week, or the life-giving re- 
 pose of the Sabbath? Amiel's Journal. 
 
loo Thoughts 
 
 There is nothing ridiculous in seeming to be what 
 you really are, but a good deal in affecting to be what 
 you are not. Sir J. Lubbock. 
 
 In life's small things be resolute and great 
 
 To keep thy muscles trained : knowest thou when Fate 
 
 Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee, 
 
 "I find thee worthy, do this thing for me ?" 
 
 Lowell. 
 
 If I can stop one heart from breaking, 
 
 I shall not live in vain. 
 If I can ease one life the aching. 
 
 Or cool one pain, 
 Or help one fainting robin 
 
 Unto his nest again, 
 I shall not live in vain. Emily Dickinson. 
 
 I know of no more encouraging fact than the un- 
 questionable ability of a man to elevate his life by a 
 conscious endeavor. It is something to be able to 
 paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so 
 make a few objects beautiful ; but it is far more glori- 
 ous to carve and paint the very atmosphere and me- 
 dium through which we look, which morally we can do. 
 
 Henry D. Thoreau. 
 
Thoughts IDT 
 
 Much which we think essential is merely a matter 
 of habit. Thomas Wentworth Higginson. 
 
 The royai ioa<i to success is to obey the inner genius, 
 to act in accordance with one's own intuition, regard- 
 less of the fear or favor of those who are bound to the 
 wheel of conventional consistency. -^Lilian Whiting. 
 
 Act well at the moment, and you have performed a 
 good action for all eternity. Lavater, 
 
 Nev/ occasions teach new duties ; 
 
 Time makes ancient good uncouth ; 
 They must upward still, and onward. 
 
 Who would keep abreast of truth. 
 
 James Russell Lowell, 
 
 What do we live for if it is not to make life less 
 difficult to each other ? --George Eliot, 
 
 Good to forgive, best to forget. Browning, 
 
 What reason have we to think any other station in 
 the universe more sanctifying than our own? There 
 is none, so far as we can tell, under the more imme- 
 diate touch of God, none whence sublimer deeps are 
 open to adoration, none murmuring with the whisper 
 of more thrilling affections or ennobled as the theater 
 of more glorious duties. Those to whom the earth 
 is not consecrated will find their heaven profane. 
 
 Dr. James Martineau, 
 
1 02 Thoughts 
 
 Whoever can influence men should strive to make 
 them more courageous, more enduring, more hopeful, 
 simpler, more joyful. Bishop Spaulding. 
 
 It is our part in life to work with all our strength 
 toward the realization of ideal humanity, to add one 
 more link to the chain which joins the man-brute of 
 the past, through the man of the present, to the man 
 of the future. The man who is likest Him, we have 
 chosen for our ideal. David Starr Jordan. 
 
 My own experience and development deepens every 
 day my conviction that our moral progress may be 
 measured by the degree in which we sympathize with 
 individual suffering and individual joy. 
 
 George Eliot, 
 
 "When opposition of any kind is necessary, drop all 
 color of emotion out of it and let it be seen in the 
 white light of truth." 
 
 The true use of a man's possessions is to help his 
 work, and the best end of all his work is to show us 
 what he is. The noblest workers of our world be- 
 queath us nothing so great as the image of themselves. 
 
 James Martineau. 
 
Thoughts 103 
 
 "What is the secret of your life?'* asked Mrs. 
 Browning of Charles Kingsley; "tell me, that I may 
 make mine beautiful too?*' He replied, "I had a 
 friend." William C. Gannett. 
 
 Better make penitents by gentleness than hypocrites 
 by severity. 5*/. Frances de Sales. 
 
 Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness ; altogether 
 past calculation its powers of endurance. Carlyle. 
 
 Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away 
 all trivial fond records, that youth and observation 
 copied there; and thy commandment all along shall 
 live within the book and volume of my brain, unmixed 
 with baser matter. Shakespeare. 
 
 I am surprised that intelligent men do not see the 
 immense value of good temper in their homes; and 
 3un amazed that they will take such pains to have 
 costly houses and fine furniture, and yet sometimes 
 neglect to bring home with them good temper. 
 
 Theodore Parker, 
 
 Everyone should consider his body as a priceless 
 gift from one whom he loves above all, a marvelous 
 work of art, of indescribable beauty, and mastery be- 
 yond human conception, and so delicate that a word, 
 a breath, a look, nay, a thought may injure it. 
 
 Nikola Tesla. 
 
I04 Thoughts 
 
 Beware of desperate steps ; the darkest day, 
 Lived till to-morrow, will have passed away. 
 
 Cow per. 
 
 Education should be full of feeling. It takes sun- 
 light to draw out the fragrance of the violet and the 
 perfume of the rose. Ellen A. Richardson. 
 
 We are encompassed about by the forces that make 
 for righteousness. All power we possess, or seem to 
 possess, comes from our accord with these forces. 
 There is no lasting force, except the power of God. 
 
 David Starr Jordan. 
 
 If one admires the patience, gentleness, sweetness 
 and unfailing energy of another; if he finds himself 
 renewed and invigorated and inspired by such contact, 
 why does he not himself so live that he may bring 
 the same renewal and inspiration to others ? 
 
 Lilian Whiting. 
 
 The flighty purpose never is overtook 
 Unless the deed go with it. -^Shakespeare. 
 
 Characters are determined not by the opinions 
 which we profess, but by those on which our thoughts 
 habitually fasten, which recur to them most forcibly 
 and which color our ordinary views of God and duty. 
 
 William Ellery Channing, 
 
Thoughts 105 
 
 We are too busy, too encumbered, too much occu- 
 pied, too active ! We read too much ! The one thing 
 needful is to throw off all one's load of cares, and to 
 become young again, living happily and gracefully in 
 the present hour. We must know how to put occu- 
 pation aside, which does not mean that we must be 
 idle. Translation, Mrs. Humphrey Ward. 
 
 The new conditions of life demand the higher spir- 
 ituality of the individual. But what is this? Is it a 
 name, a mental state of exaltation, an ecstasy ? Is it an 
 exalted hour, or is it conduct? Is it a merely theo- 
 retical thing, a vision caught in some rare hour ? . . . 
 If it be thus, it may have a decorative value in 
 ethics, but is devoid of any practical bearing on our 
 common life. Unless spirituality is the power that 
 transforms falsehood to truth, selfishness to generosity, 
 unless it enters into character as a pervasive forc^ of 
 what use can it be ? 
 
 Spirituality is not negative. It is not the mere ab- 
 sence of sin. It is the most positive state. 
 
 The World Beautiful, Lilian Whiting. 
 
 The world seemed empty, and black, and cold. 
 And wretched, and helpless, and very old. 
 God gave me a thought; a new world grew. 
 The thought created the world anew. 
 
 S. W.Foss, 
 
io6 Thoughts 
 
 Apology is only egotism wrong side out. 
 
 Oliver Wendell Holmes, 
 
 No one has any more right to go about unhappy 
 than he has to go about ill-bred. He owes it to him- 
 self, to his friends, to society and the community in 
 general, to live up to his best spiritual possibilities, not 
 only now and then, but every day and every hour. 
 
 Lilian Whiting. 
 
 Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be sure 
 that he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure is he that 
 he shall shoot higher than he who aims but at a bush. 
 
 Sir Philip Sidney. 
 
 Blessed are they who have the gift of making 
 friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves 
 many things, but, above all, the power of going out of 
 one's self, and seeing and appreciating whatever is 
 noble and loving in another. Thomas Hughes. 
 
 There is no duty the fulfillment of which will not 
 make you happier, nor any temptation for which there 
 is no remedy. Seneca. 
 
 Let nothing come between you and the light. 
 
 Henry D. Thoreau. 
 
Thoughts 107 
 
 The summer vanishes, but soon shall come 
 The glad young days of yet another year. 
 So do not mourn the passing of a joy, 
 But rather wait the coming of a good, 
 And know God never takes a gift away 
 But He sends other gifts to take its place/' 
 
io8 Thoughts 
 
 We must be as courteous to a man as to a picture, 
 which we are willing to give the benefit of a good 
 hght. Emerson. 
 
 The old year is fast slipping back behind us. We 
 cannot stay it if we would. We must go on and leave 
 our past. Let us go forth nobly. Let us go as those 
 whom greater thoughts and greater deeds await be- 
 yond. Phillips Brooks. 
 
 Opportunity is a good angel, but she deserts those 
 who fail to recognize her. The ring of power must 
 be worn; ... if the charm is not held to serv- 
 ice, it slips away. Lilian Whiting. 
 
 A dull day need not be a depressing day ; depression 
 always implies physical or moral weakness, and is 
 therefore never to be tolerated so long as one can strug- 
 gle against it. Hamilton W. Mahie. 
 
 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours 
 And ask them what report they bore to heaven. 
 Young's Night Thoughts. 
 
 For the will and not the gift makes the giver. 
 
 Lessing. 
 
 Write it on your heart that every day is the best 
 day of the year. Emerson. 
 
Thoughts 109 
 
 If I shoot at the sun I may hit a star. 
 
 P. T. Barnum. 
 
 The highest point of achievement of yesterday is 
 the starting point of to-day. 
 
 Motto of Paulist Fathers. 
 
 I look upon that man as happy, who, when there is 
 a question of success, looks into his work for a reply ; 
 not into the market, not into opinion, not into patron- 
 age. Work is victory. You want but one verdict ; if 
 you have your own, you are secure of the rest. 
 
 Emerson. 
 
 There is ever a song somewhere, my dear. 
 Be the skies above or dark or fair. 
 There is ever a song that our hearts may hear 
 There is ever a song somewhere, my dear 
 There is ever a song somewhere ! 
 
 James Whitcomh Riley. 
 
 "The Present, the Present is all thou hast 
 For thy sure possessing ; 
 Like the Patriarch's angel, hold it fast 
 Till it g^ves its blessing." 
 
 What a sublime doctrine it is that goodness cher- 
 ished now, is eternal life already entered upon ! 
 
 William Ellery Channing. 
 
no Thoughts 
 
 He who feels contempt 
 
 For any living thing, hath faculties 
 
 That he has never used : 
 
 And thought with him 
 
 Is in its infancy. --Phillips Brooks, 
 
Thoughts III 
 
 " 'This one thing I do/ or, 'These forty things I 
 dabble in/ which shall it be?" 
 
 I expect to pass through this life but once. If, 
 therefore, there is any kindness I can show, or any 
 good I can do to any fellow-being, let me do it now, 
 let me not defer it, for I shall not pass this way again. 
 
 Mrs. A. B. Hegeman. 
 
 We get no good by being ungenerous, even to a book. 
 
 E. B. Browning. 
 
 Build a little fence of trust around to-day, 
 Fill the space with loving deeds and therein stay; 
 Look not through the sheltering bars upon to-morrow, 
 God will help thee bear what comes of joy or sorrow. 
 
 Mary Frances Butts. 
 
 A wide-spreading, hopeful disposition is the best 
 umbrella for this vale of tears. Wm. D. Howells. 
 
 He who meets life as though it meant something 
 worth finding out, and who expresses his best self, is 
 the one who has the permanent basis of happiness. 
 
 H. W. Dresser. 
 
 Conscience is nothing else but the echo of God's 
 voice within the soul. . B. Hall. 
 
112 Thoughts 
 
 We prepare ourselves for sudden deeds by the re- 
 iterated choice of good or evil, that gradually deter- 
 mines character. ^Ccorge Eliot. 
 
 To be courteous to one's peers is all very well, but 
 it is fairness and courtesy and consideration to those 
 in dependent or limited conditions that constitute the 
 true test of the gentleman or lady. Lilian Whiting. 
 
 I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved. 
 The realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. 
 
 George Eliot. 
 
 * 
 
 I should count myself fortunate if my home were 
 remembered for some inspiring quality of faith, char- 
 ity, and aspiring intelligence. Hamilton W. Mabie. 
 
 How soon a smile of God can change the world ! 
 How we are made for happiness how work 
 Grows play, adversity a winning fight! 
 
 Browning. 
 
 Let this auspicious morning be expressed 
 With a white stone distinguished from the rest, 
 White as thy fame, and as thy honor clear. 
 And let new joys attend on thy now added year. 
 
 Dryden. 
 
 Give to a gracious message a host of tongues; but 
 let ill tidings tell themselves. Shakespeare. 
 
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 I 
 
 MMORTALITT will come to such as 
 are Jit for it; and be ivbo ivould be a great 
 soul in the future must he a great soul noiv. 
 
Thoughts 113 
 
 Still o*er the earth hastes Opportunity, 
 Seeking the hardy soul that seeks for her. 
 Be not abroad, nor deaf with household cares 
 That chatter loudest as they mean the least ; 
 Swift-willed is thrice willed ; late means nevermore ; 
 Impatient is her foot, nor turns again. 
 
 James Russell Lowell. 
 
 To live content with small means to seek elegance 
 rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fash- 
 ion, to be worthy not respectable, and wealthy not 
 rich to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act 
 frankly, to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, 
 with open heart to bear all cheerfully do all bravely, 
 await occasions never hurry; in a word, to let the 
 spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through 
 the common. This is to be my symphony. 
 
 William Ellery Channing. 
 
 Let us do our duty in our shop or our kitchen, the 
 market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just 
 as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some 
 great battle, and we knew that victory for mankind 
 depended on our bravery, strength, and skill. When 
 we do that, the humblest of us will be serving in that 
 great army which achieves the welfare of the world. 
 
 Theodore Parker. 
 
114 Thoughts 
 
 Opportunities correspond with almost mathematical 
 accuracy to the ability for using them. 
 
 Lilian Whiting. 
 
 The blessedness of life depends more upon its in- 
 terests than upon its comforts. George Macdonald. 
 
 No man finds himself until he has created a world 
 for his own soul ; a world apart from care and weak- 
 ness and the confusion of strife, in which the faiths 
 that inspire him, and the ideals that lead him are the 
 great and lasting verities. ^Hamilton IV. Mabie. 
 
 Endeavor to be patient in bearing the defects and 
 infirmities of others, of what sort soever they be; for 
 thou thyself also hast many failings which must be 
 borne with by others. Thomas ^ Kempis. 
 
 He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled. He 
 who does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted. 
 He who puts off impurity thereby puts on purity. 
 
 Emerson. 
 
 They also serve who only stand and wait. 
 
 Milton. 
 
 He that is choice of his time will be choice of his 
 company and choice of his actions. Jeremy Taylor. 
 
Thoughts 115 
 
 In all things throughout the world, the man who 
 looks for the crooked will see the crooked, and the 
 man who looks for the straight will see the straight. 
 
 Ruskin. 
 
 Begin, live, aspire, realize the best ideal of the mo- 
 ment; and this earnest effort shall lead the way to 
 greater achievement. i/. IV. Dresser. 
 
 Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the uni- 
 verse, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a 
 charm to sadness, gayety and life to everything. It 
 is the essence of order, and leads to all that is good, 
 just, and beautiful. ^Plato, 
 
 If thou wouldst speak a word of l6ving cheer. 
 Oh, speak it now. This moment is thine own. 
 
 Nellie M. Richardson. 
 
 Can a man help imitating that with which he holds 
 reverential converse? ^Plato. 
 
 If a man can write a better book, preach a better 
 sermon, or make a better mouse-trap, than his neigh- 
 bor, though he builds his house in the woods, the 
 world will make a beaten path to his door. 
 
 Emerson, 
 
ii6 Thoughts 
 
 Come, let us live the poetry we sing. 
 
 Edwin Markham. 
 
 "Instead of wishing that all men were of our mind, 
 we should account it one of the first blessings of life 
 that there are men who do not agree with us. The 
 currents of sea and air are not more necessary than 
 the currents of thought." 
 
 In looking back over our lives, we often see that 
 what seemed at the time the worst hours and the most 
 hopeless in their wretchedness were in reality the best 
 of all! They developed powers within us that had 
 heretofore slept; developed energies of which we had 
 never dreamed. ^James Freeman Clarke. 
 
 Let your task be to render yourself worthy of love, 
 and this even more for your own happiness than for 
 that of another's. Maurice Materlinck. 
 
 There is great danger in constant dissatisfaction. 
 Sooner or later, it will involve the health, or finances, 
 or both, for it destroys the mental balance, and impairs 
 the judgment. C. B. Newcomb. 
 
 "Don't nurse opportunity too long take it into 
 active partnership with you at once, lest it leave you 
 for other company." 
 
Thoughts 117 
 
 We just shake hands at meeting 
 
 With many that come nigh ; 
 We nod the head in greeting 
 
 To many that go by, 
 But welcome through the gateway 
 
 Our few old friends and true ; 
 Then hearts leap up, and straightway 
 
 There's open house for you. 
 Old Friends, there's open house for you I 
 
 The surface will be sparkling, 
 
 Let but a sunbeam shine ; 
 Yet in the deep lies darkling. 
 
 The true life of the wine I 
 The froth is for the many, 
 
 The wine is for the few ; 
 Unseen, untoucht of any, 
 
 We keep the best for you, 
 Old Friends, the very best for you! 
 
 The many cannot know us ; 
 
 They only pace the strand. 
 Where at our worst we show us 
 The waters thick with sand ! 
 But out beyond the leaping 
 
 Dim surge 'tis clear and blue ; 
 And there, Old Friends, we are keeping 
 
 A sacred calm for you, 
 Old Friends, a waiting calm for you. 
 
 Gerald Massey, 
 
ii8 Thoughts 
 
 It is my custom every night to run all over the 
 words and actions of the past day; for why shoula I 
 fear the sight of my errors when I can admonish and 
 forgive myself? I was a little too hot in such a dis- 
 pute : my opinion might have been as well spared, for 
 it gave offense, and did no good at all. The thing was 
 true ; but all truths are not to be spoken at all times. 
 
 Seneca. 
 
 Also, I think that good must come of good, 
 And ill of evil surely unto all 
 In every place and time seeing sweet fruit 
 Groweth from wholesome roots, and bitter things 
 From poison stocks ; yea, seeing, too, how spite 
 Breeds hate, and kindness, friends, and patience, peace. 
 
 Edwin Arnold. 
 
 If we would listen intently, we might hear the divine 
 voice within, assuring us that God is our life; that 
 spirit is the only substantial entity and that love is the 
 only law. Henry Wood. 
 
 Let us grow out of the idea that because we do 
 some one a favor or render him a service, that he is 
 thereby under some transcendent obligation to us. 
 Let us recognize the truth that it is we who are 
 obliged if he will permit us to do him a favor. 
 
 Lilian Whiting. 
 
Thoupfhts no 
 
 Let us have faith that right makes might, and in 
 that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we 
 understand it. Abraham Lincoln, 
 
 Compass happiness, since happiness alone is victory. 
 What you make of life, it will be to you. Take it up 
 bravely, bear it on joyfully, lay it down triumphantly. 
 
 Gail Hamilton. 
 
 Those things that are not practicable are not de- 
 sirable. There is nothing that God has judged good 
 for us that He has not given us the means to accom- 
 plish. If we cry like children for the moon, like chil- 
 dren we must cry on. Burke, 
 
 I feel the earth move sunward, 
 I join the great march onward. 
 And take by faith while living 
 My freehold of thanksgiving. 
 
 John G, Whittier. 
 
 Howe'er it be, it seems to me 
 
 'Tis only noble to be good ; 
 Kind hearts are more than coronets. 
 
 And simple faith than Norman blood. 
 
 Tennyson. 
 
120 Thoughts 
 
 Pin thy faith to no man's sleeve ; hast thou not two 
 eyes of thine own? Carlyle. 
 
 Do your best loyally and cheerfully, and suffer 
 yourself to feel no anxiety nor fear. Your times are 
 in God's hands. He has assigned you your place : He 
 will direct your paths; He will accept your efforts, if 
 they be faithful. ^Canon Farrar, 
 
 When we cease to look upon any experience as too 
 hard, we have made a decided step in wise adjustment 
 to life. -^' ^' Dresser. 
 
 A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed 
 thoughts, but as soon as we have learned what to do 
 with them, they become our own. Emerson. 
 
 The choir invisible ! Who are members of it, if not 
 all those who in any way are doing the day's work, 
 whatever it may be, as well as they know how; who 
 are trying to make the world happier and pleasanter 
 for those to whom their lives are naturally bound. 
 
 John White Chadwick. 
 
 "By thine own soul's law learn to live, 
 And if men scorn thee, take no care. 
 And if men hate thee, takfe no heed. 
 But sing thy song and do thy deed. 
 And hope thy hope, and pray thy prayer.*' 
 
Thoughts 121 
 
 There arc some who want to get rid of their past, 
 who, if they could, would begin all over again, . . . 
 but you must learn, you must let God teach you, that 
 the only way to get rid of your past is to get a future 
 out of it. -^Phillips Brooks, 
 
 It is a sign that your reputation is small and sink- 
 ing, if your own tongue must praise you. 
 
 Sir Matthew Hale, 
 
 Because a man has shop to mind 
 
 In time and place, since flesh must live, 
 
 Needs spirit lack all life behind, 
 
 All stray thoughts, fancies fugitive. 
 
 All loves except what trade can give? 
 
 Browning, 
 
 There is no beautifier in form or behavior like the; 
 wish to scatter joy, and not pain, around us. 
 
 Emerson, 
 
 Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a 
 great ship. ^Benjamin Franklin. 
 
 First make your arrangements, then trust in heaven ; 
 and in no case worry. Prof. Jowett, 
 
122 Thoughts 
 
 "Hold thy peace or say something better than si- 
 lence." 
 
 "Friend, all the world's a little queer, excepting thee 
 and me ; and sometimes I think thee a trifle peculiar." 
 
 We live by our enthusiasm and our exaltations. Our 
 sympathies are our strength. Our interests are our 
 magnetisms, and are transmuted into our working 
 capital. Lilian Whiting. 
 
 His heart was as great as the world, but there was 
 no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong. 
 
 (Said of Lincoln.) Emerson. 
 
 He is all truth in his words, and justice in his ac- 
 tions, and if the whole world should disbelieve his in- 
 tegrity, dispute his character, and question his happi- 
 ness, he would neither take it ill in the least, nor turn 
 aside from that path that leads to the aim of life, 
 toward which he must move, pure, calm, well pre- 
 pared and with perfect resignation in his fate. 
 
 Marcus Aurelius. 
 
 Observe good faith and justice toward all nations, 
 cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and 
 morality enjoin this conduct ; and can it be that good 
 policy does not equally enjoin it ? Washington. 
 
Thoughts 123 
 
 It is well to believe that there needs but a little 
 more thought, a little more courage, more love, more 
 devotion to life, a little more eagerness, one day to 
 fling open wide the portals of joy and of truth. 
 
 Maurice Materlinck, 
 
 The mind has a thousand eyes. 
 
 And the heart but one ; 
 Yet the light of a whole life dies 
 
 When love is done. 
 
 F. W. Bourdilhn, 
 
 A man's home is his castle, but it ought to be more. 
 It ought to be his home. That it is his castle is his 
 right by law. To make it a real home depends upon 
 himself. 5'r /. Lubbock. 
 
 We can fix our eyes on perfection and make almost 
 everything speed towards it. ^W. E. Channing. 
 
 "It was the heaven within her that made a heaven 
 without." 
 
 He who, forgetting self, makes the object of his life 
 service, helpfulness and kindness tq others, finds his 
 whole nature growing and expanding, himself becom- 
 ing large-hearted, magnanimous, kind, sympathetic, 
 joyous and happy; his life becoming rich and beau- 
 tiful. Ralph Waldo Trine. 
 
1 24 Thoughts 
 
 "Talk happiness ; the world is sad enough 
 Without your woes. No path is wholly rough : 
 Look for the places that are smooth and clear, 
 And speak of these to rest the weary ear 
 Of earth, so hurt by one continuous strain 
 Of human discontent and grief and pain." 
 
 Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, 
 
 Lest we forget, lest we forget ! Kipling. 
 
 This world's no blot for us 
 Nor blank ; it means intensely and means good : 
 To find its meaning is my meat and drink. 
 
 Robert Browning. 
 
 The test of friendship is its fidelity when every 
 charm of fortune and environment has been swept 
 away, and the bare, undraped character alone remains ; 
 if love still holds steadfast, and the joy of companion- 
 ship still survives, in such an hour, the fellowship be- 
 comes a beautiful prophecy of immortality. 
 
 Hamilton Wright Mabie. 
 
 We lose vigor through thinking continually the same 
 et of thoughts. New thought is new life. 
 
 Prentice Mulford. 
 
Thoughts 125 
 
 No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own 
 littleness than disbelief in great men. ^Carlyle. 
 
 If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if 
 food, 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, 
 
 Nay, never falter ; no great deed is done 
 By falterers who ask for certainty. 
 
 No good is certain but the steadfast mind. 
 The undivided will to seek the good. 
 
 George Eliot. 
 
 There is a class of people who are comparatively 
 valueless to the world because of a certain morbidness 
 which they are pleased to call sensitiveness. In real- 
 ity it is nothing of the sort. It is self-love a refined 
 variety of it, to be sure, but none the less is it the re- 
 sult of a selfishly subjective state, in which they look in 
 and not out, and down and not up, and fail to lend a 
 hand not from any real unwillingness, but because 
 they are looking in, and do not see the opportunity. 
 
 Lilian Whiting. 
 
 No one is useless in this world who lightens the bur- 
 den of it to anyone else. Dickens. 
 
126 Thoughts 
 
 We always weaken when we exaggerate. 
 
 La Harpe. 
 
 It is not poverty that helps a man ; it is the effort by 
 which he throws off the yoke of poverty that enlarges 
 the powers. ^David Starr Jordan. 
 
 "Of all bad habits, despondency is among the least 
 respectable, and there is no one quite so tiresome as 
 the sad-visaged Christian who is oppressed by the 
 wickedness and hopelessness of the world." 
 
 Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass 
 under the trees on a summer's day, listening to thft 
 murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across 
 the sky, is by no means waste of time. 
 
 Sir J. Lubbock. 
 
 There is no preservative and antiseptic, nothing that 
 keeps one's heart young like sympathy, like giving 
 one's self with enthusiasm to some worthy thing or 
 cause. John Burroughs. 
 
 A truly concentrated life promptly rejects every 
 thought of past or future that would disturb its confi- 
 dence in the present hour. C. B. Newcomb. 
 
Thoughts 127 
 
 A man can never be idle with safety and advantage 
 until he has been so trained by work that he makes 
 his freedom more fruitful than his toil. 
 
 Hamilton Wright Mabie. 
 
 After every storm the sun will smile; for every 
 problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible 
 duty is to be of good cheer. Wm. R. Alger, 
 
 Be sure to live on the sunny side, and even then do 
 not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually 
 wear gray-brown glasses. Chas. H. Eliot. 
 
 Whenever Conscience calls a halt, it is no place for 
 Reason to debate the question. The way ahead is no 
 thoroughfare. Charles Egbert Craddock. 
 
 Give what you have. To some one it may be better 
 than you dare to think. Longfellow. 
 
 *Tf bitterness has crept into the heart in the fric- 
 tion of the busy day's unguarded moments, be sure it 
 steals away with the setting sun. Twilight is God's in- 
 terval for peace-making." 
 
 It is surely better to pardon too much than to con- 
 demn too much. Geo. Eliot. 
 
128 Thoughts 
 
 "The initial need to enjoyment is not many posses- 
 sions, but much appreciation." 
 
 Just to be good, to keep Hfe pure from degrading 
 elements, to make it constantly helpful in little ways 
 to those who are touched by it, to keep one's spirit 
 always sweet and avoid all manner of petty anger and 
 irritability, that is an idea as noble as it is difficult. 
 
 Edward Howard Griggs. 
 
 Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their 
 tremendous difficulties. Spurgeon, 
 
 "No matter how narrow your limits 
 Go forth and make them broad : 
 You are every one the daughter or son, 
 Crown prince or princess of God." 
 
 The best help is not to bear the troubles of others 
 for them, but to inspire them with courage and energy 
 to bear their burdens for themselves and meet the 
 difficulties of life bravely. Lubbock. 
 
 Never tell evil of a man, if you do not know it for 
 certainty, and if you know it for a certainty, then ask 
 yourself, "Why should I tell it?" Lavater. 
 
^>n^/>Zco^)-/dJ2.J24j2^ 
 
 G 
 
 RE AT poivers and natural gifts do not 
 bring privileges to their possessors so 
 much as they bring duties. 
 
 128 
 
Thoughts 129 
 
 Let us then labor for an inward stillness, 
 An inward stillness and an inward healing; 
 That perfect silence where the lips and heart 
 Are still, and we no longer entertain 
 Our own imperfect thoughts and vain opinions. 
 But God alone speaks in us, and we wait 
 In singleness of heart that we may know 
 His will, and in the silence of our own spirits, 
 That we may do His will, and that only. 
 
 Longfellow, 
 
130 Thoughts 
 
 Many persons might have attained to wisdom had 
 they not assumed that they already possessed it. 
 
 Seneca, 
 
 Stagnation is death, whether it be physical or spir- 
 itual. A pool cannot be pure and ^ sweet unless there 
 is an outlet as well as an inlet. Unless you use for the 
 service of others what God has already given you, you 
 will find it a long weary road to Spiritual Understand- 
 ing. H. Emilie Cady. 
 
 Make friends with your trials, as though you were 
 always to live together, and you will find that when 
 you cease to take thought for your own deliverance, 
 God will take thought for you. Frances de Sales. 
 
 "God will never leave you without light enough to 
 take one step. Don't stop walking till the light gives 
 out." 
 
 We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or grand mo- 
 ments that signify. Let the measure of time be spir- 
 itual, not mechanical. Emerson. 
 
 If a man does not make new acquaintances as he ad- 
 vances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A 
 man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant re- 
 pair, /v. Johnson. 
 
Thoughts 131 
 
 "Happiness does not depend on money or leisure, or 
 society, or even on health ; it depends on our relation 
 to those we love." 
 
 Life without endeavor is like entering a jewel-mine 
 and coming out with empty hands. 
 
 Japanese Proverb, 
 
 Accustom yourself to master and overcome things 
 of difficulty; for if you observe the left hand for 
 want of practice is insignificant and not adapted to 
 general business ; yet it holds the bridle better than the 
 right from constant use. Pliny. 
 
 Almost every moment of the day the eye is receiv- 
 ing impressions from outward objects, and instantly 
 communicating these impressions to the soul. Thus 
 the soul receives every day thousands of impressions, 
 good or bad, according to the character of the objects 
 presented. --Cardinal Gibbons, 
 
 Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in 
 rising every time we fall. Confucius. 
 
 Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting or 
 unrewarding who sees within the sphere of his own 
 activity a wrong he can help to remedy, or within 
 himself an evil he can hope to overcome. 
 
 Charu H. Eliot. 
 
132 Thoughts 
 
 It is as amazing as it is sad, that we go about so 
 largely burdening ourselves with strivings that are of 
 no consequence, and miss the gladness and exhilara- 
 tion of living. No life is successful until it is radiant. 
 The King of Glory is always ready to come in. Why 
 do we bar the way? We cannot all live in palaces; 
 but we can all live in the Kingdom of Heaven, and the 
 material luxuries of the one pale before the glow and 
 thrill and exaltation of the other. 
 
 The World Beautiful^ Lilian Whiting, 
 
 "As I walked by myself 
 
 I talked with myself, 
 And myself said this unto me : 
 
 Make friends with thyself. 
 Be true to thyself, 
 
 And thyself thy good angel shall be." 
 
 The prosperity of a nation depends upon the health 
 and morals of its citizens, and the health and morals 
 of people depend mainly upon the food they eat and 
 the houses they live in. The time has come when we 
 must have a science of domestic economy, and it must 
 be worked out in the homes of our educated women. 
 A knowledge of the elements of chemistry and phy- 
 sics must be applied to the daily living. 
 
 Ellen Richards. 
 
Thoughts 133 
 
 *Tis looking downward makes one dizzy. 
 
 Browning. 
 
 Contact with nobler natures arouses the feelings of 
 unused power and quickens the consciousness of re- 
 sponsibility, Canon WestcoU, 
 
 Diligence is the mother of good luck. 
 
 Benjamin Franklin, 
 
 "Diving and finding no pearl in the sea. 
 Blame not the ocean, the fault is in thee." 
 
 A partnership with God is motherhood. 
 What strength, what purity, what self-control, . 
 What love, what wisdom should belong to her 
 Who helps God fashion an immortal soul ! 
 
 Mary Wood Allen. 
 
 No one but yourself can make your life beautiful, 
 no one can be pure, honorable and loving for you. 
 
 /. R. Miller. 
 
 Ah, the key of our life, that passes all wards, opens all 
 
 locks, 
 Is not I will, but I must, I must, I must, and I do it. 
 
 ^A. H. Clough. 
 
134 Thoughts 
 
 I beg you take courage: the brave soul can mend 
 even disaster. ^Catherine of Russia. 
 
 Opinions are often the very death of love. Love 
 aright and you will come to think aright; and those 
 who think aright, must think the same. In the mean- 
 time, it matters nothing. The thing that does matter 
 is that whereto we have attained. Geo. Macdondld. 
 
 Would the face of nature be so serene and beautiful 
 if man's destiny were not equally so ? Thoreau. 
 
 Some men move through life as a band of music 
 moves down the street, flinging out pleasure on every 
 side through the air, to every one far and near that 
 can listen. Henry Ward Beecher. 
 
 Man is his own star ; and the soul that can 
 Render an honest and an upright man. 
 Commands all light, all influence, all fate ; 
 Nothing to him falls early or too late. 
 Our acts our angels are, or good or ill. 
 Our fatal shadows that walk by us still. 
 
 Beaumont and Fletcher, 
 
Thoughts 135 
 
 The nearer you come into relation with a person, the 
 more necessary do tact and courtesy become. 
 
 Holmes. 
 
 What your heart thinks great is great. The soul's 
 emphasis is always right. -Emerson, 
 
 Courage, Sir, 
 That makes a man or woman look their goodliest. 
 
 Tennyson. 
 
 For a woman to be wise and at the same time wom- 
 anly, is to wield a tremendous influence which may be 
 felt for good in the lives of generations to come. 
 
 David Starr Jordan. 
 
 We never know for what God is preparing us in his 
 schools, for what work on earth, for what work in the 
 hereafter. Our business is to do our work well in the 
 present place, whatever that may be. 
 
 Lyman Abbott, 
 
 There is no unbelief : 
 Whoever plants a seed beneath the sod. 
 And waits to see it push away the clod. 
 
 Trusts in God. Bulwer-Lytton, 
 
136 Thoughts 
 
 The world is such stuff as ideas are made of. 
 Thought possesses all things. But the world is not 
 unreal. It extends infinitely beyond our private con- 
 sciousness, because it is the world of a universal mind. 
 
 Josiah Royce. 
 
Thoughts 137 
 
 In Life's small things be resolute and great 
 
 To keep thy muscles trained ; know'st thou when fate 
 
 Thy measure takes ? or when she'll say to thee, 
 
 "I find thee worthy, do this thing for me !" 
 
 Emerson. 
 
 To hold one's self in readiness for opportunity, to 
 keep the serene, confident, hopeful, and joyful energy 
 of mind, is to magnetize it, and draw privileges and 
 power toward one. The concern is not whether op- 
 portunity will present itself, but as to whether we will 
 be ready for the opportunity. It comes not to doubt 
 and denial and disbelief. It comes to sunny expecta- 
 tion, eager purpose, and to noble and generous aspira- 
 tion. --Lilian Whiting. 
 
 Let not soft slumber close your eyes, 
 Before you've recollected thrice 
 The train of action through the day. 
 Where have my feet chose out their way? 
 What have I learnt, where'er I've been, 
 From all I've heard, from all I've seen ? 
 What know I more that's worth the knowing?^ 
 What have I done that's worth the doing? 
 
 Isaac Watts. 
 
138 Thoughts 
 
 If we neglect to exercise any talent, power, or qual- 
 ity, it soon falls away from us. Henry Wood. 
 
 Every moment of worry weakens the soul for its 
 daily combat. Anna Robertson Brown. 
 
 With aching hands and bleeding feet 
 
 We dig and heap, lay stone on stone ; 
 
 We bear the burden and the heat of the long day 
 
 And wish 'twere done. 
 
 Not till the hour of light return 
 
 All we have built do we discern. 
 
 Matthew Arnold. 
 
 What a man is inwardly that to him will the world 
 be outwardly: his mood aifects the very "quality of 
 the day." Bradford Torrey. 
 
 This is my youth its hopes and dreams 
 How strange and shadowy it all seems, 
 
 After these many years ! 
 Turning the pages idly, so, 
 I look with smiles upon the woe, 
 
 Upon the joy, with tears! Aldrkh. 
 
Thoughts 139 
 
 It is in loving, not in being loved, 
 
 The heart is blessed ; 
 It is in giving, not in seeking gifts. 
 
 We find our quest. 
 Whatever be thy longing or thy need, 
 
 That do thou give. 
 So shalt thy soul be fed, and thou, indeed, 
 
 Shalt truly live. M. E. Russell. 
 
 The world is a looking glass. 
 Wherein ourselves are shown, 
 Kindness for . kindness, cheer for cheer. 
 Coldness for gloom, repulse for fear, 
 To every soul its own. 
 We cannot change the world a whit. 
 Only ourselves, who look in it. 
 
 Susan Coolidge. 
 
 I would say to all : use your gentlest voice at home. 
 Watch it day by day, as a pearl of great price ; for it 
 will be worth to you in days to come more than the 
 best pearl hid in the sea. A kind voice is joy, like a 
 lark's song, to a hearth at home. It is a light that 
 sings as well as shines. Train it to sweet tones now, 
 V and it will keep in tune through life. -~EHhu Burritt. 
 
I40 Thoughts 
 
 In a world in which so many people wear the same 
 clothes, live in the same house, eat the same dinner, 
 and say the same things, blessed are the individuals 
 who are not lost in the mob, who have their own 
 thoughts, and live their own lives. 
 
 Hamilton Wright Mabie. 
 
 There are people who go about the world looking 
 for slights and they are necessarily miserable, for they 
 find them at every turn. Drummond. 
 
 He who has a thousand rooms sleeps in but one. 
 
 Japanese Proverb. 
 
 Be happy, peaceful and satisfied just as you stand, 
 having sufficient steadiness and independence to hold 
 your own against the eddies and rapids about you. 
 Apply practically that which you perceive spiritually. 
 
 Accept your position as it is, and make the very best 
 of it till it passes. Work with it, knowing that In- 
 finite Wisdom is guiding you : and so cease all anxious 
 thought, and rest. 
 
 God's Light as It Came to Me. 
 
 Aspire, break bounds ! I say. 
 Endeavor to be good, and better still. 
 And best I 
 
 Robert Browning. 
 
Thoughts 141 
 
 CHRISTMAS DAY. 
 
 Glory be to Thee in the highest heavens, O Thou 
 God of our salvation. Thou hast proclaimed peace on 
 earth and infinite good will to men. Unto us has been 
 born a Guide and Deliverer. We hail the morning 
 which commemorates His birth. We thank Thee that 
 we may unite in the joyful commemoration which 
 makes us one with millions of Thy children in all parts 
 of the world. ^Altar at Home. 
 
 Lift up yourselves to the great meaning of the day, 
 and dare to think of your humanity as something so 
 divinely precious that it is worthy of being an offering 
 to God. Count it a privilege to make that offering as 
 complete as possible, keeping nothing back, and then 
 go out to the pleasures and duties of your life, having 
 been born anew into His divinity, as He was born into 
 our humanity on Christmas Day. Phillips Brooks. 
 
142 Thoughts 
 
 Then wisely weigh 
 Our sorrow with our comfort. 
 
 Shakespeare. 
 
 There are two times in a man's life when he should 
 not speculate ; when he can't afford it, and when he can. 
 
 Mark Twain. 
 
 A man may get to his journey's end by the light of 
 a lantern, but he is less secure than the man who 
 travels by daylight, and he loses the landscape. 
 
 Hamilton Wright Mabie. 
 
 As our ideal becomes loftier, so does it become more 
 real ; and the nobler our soul, the less does it dread that 
 it meet not a soul of its stature; for it must have 
 drawn near unto truth, in whose neighborhood all 
 things must take of its greatness. 
 
 Maurice Materlinck. 
 
 The importance of a home it is impossible to exag- 
 gerate. What is liberty without it? What is educa- 
 tion in schools without it ? The greatness of no nation 
 can be secure that is not based upon a pure home life. 
 
 Arnold Toynhee. 
 
 Nay, if you come to that, best love of all 
 
 Is God's ; then why not have God's love befall 
 
 Myself? Robert Browning. 
 
Thoughts 143 
 
 Let nothing disturb thee, 
 
 Nothing affright thee; 
 All things are passing ; 
 
 God never changeth ; 
 Patient endurance 
 
 Attaineth to all things; 
 Who God possesseth 
 
 In nothing is wanting ; 
 Alone God sufficeth. 
 
 Santa Teresa's Book Mark. 
 
 When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful 
 form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be 
 the fairest of sights to him who has the eye to con- 
 template the vision. Plato. 
 
 It is only to the finest natures that age gives an added 
 beauty and distinction ; for the most persistent self has 
 then worked its way to the surface, having modified 
 the expression, and to some extent, the features, to its 
 own likeness. Mathilde Blind. 
 
 "God never loved me in so sweet a way before, 
 'Tis He alone who can such blessings send, 
 And when His love would new expressions find. 
 He brought thee to me, and He said, 
 'Behold a friend.' " 
 
144 Thoughts 
 
 "We can never see the sun rise by looking into the 
 west." 
 
 Give not thy tongue too great Hberty, lest it take thee 
 a prisoner. A word unspoken is like the sword in 
 the scabbard thine: if vented, thy sword is in an- 
 other's hand. Quarks. 
 
 Reputation is in itself only a farthing candle, of 
 wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out; 
 but it is the light by which the world looks for and 
 finds merit. Lowell. 
 
 The making of friends, who are real friends, is the 
 best token we have of a man's success in life. 
 
 Edward Everett Hale. 
 
 "It was only a glad *Good-morning' 
 
 As she passed along the way. 
 But it spread the morning's glory 
 Over the live long day." 
 
 There is only one way to have good servants; that 
 is, to be worthy of being well served. Only let it be 
 remembered that "kindness" means, as with your child, 
 so with your servant, not indulgence, but care. 
 
 Ruskin. 
 
J^Z.,^^^^ /^-ec.i^^'s^i?^ ^^-^-^Sl. 
 
 T: 
 
 educate the hearty one must be iviUing 
 to go out of himself and come into loving 
 contact luitb others, 
 
 44 
 
Thoughts 14] 
 
 "Far out of sight, while sorrows still enfold us. 
 Lies the fair country where our hearts abide : 
 And of its bliss is naught more wondrous told us. 
 Than these few words, *I shall be satisfied/ " 
 
 ^'Though there come a million, 
 Wise Saadi dwells alone." 
 But it is a question as to whether Saadi is wise when 
 he prefers to dwell alone. Living on earth, is it not 
 one's duty to hear many voices that ring in its air? 
 Is one's life for mere acquirement, or to show results 
 and flower into influence and deed? 
 
 The World Beautiful, Lilian Whiting. 
 
 The mountain top must be reached no matter how 
 many times we fall in reaching it. The fall is not 
 counted, it does not register; the picking up and go- 
 ing on counts in life. -i^lora Howard. 
 
 Success in life is a matter not so much of talent or 
 opportunity as of concentration and perseverance. 
 
 Chas. W. Wendte. 
 
 Be what thou seemest ; live thy creed. 
 Hold up to earth the touch divine ; 
 Be what thou prayest to be made ; 
 Let the great Master's steps be thine. 
 
 Horatio Bonar. 
 
146 Thoughts 
 
 To be honest, to be kind, to earn a little, and to spend 
 a little less, to make upon the whole, a family happier 
 for his presence, to renounce when that shall be neces- 
 sary and not to be embittered, to keep a few friends, 
 but these without capitulation ; above all, on the same 
 condition, to keep friends with himself, here is a task 
 for all a man has of fortitude and delicacy. 
 
 Robert Louis Stevenson. 
 
 Who is the honest man ? 
 He that doth still and strongly good pursue. 
 To God, his neighbor and himself most true, 
 
 Whom neither force nor fawning can 
 Unpin, or wrench from giving all their due. 
 
 George Herbert. 
 
 Take the Sunday with you through the week. 
 And sweeten with it all the other days. 
 
 Longfellow. 
 
 God will not mock the hope he giveth. 
 No love he prompts shall vainly plead. 
 
 Whittier. 
 
 God's goodness hath been great to thee ; 
 Let never day or night unhallowed pass. 
 But still remember what the Lord hath done. 
 
 Shakespeare, 
 
Thoughts 147 
 
 Yet ere we part, one lesson I can leave you 
 
 For every day ... 
 Be good . . . 
 
 Do noble things, not dream them, all day long : 
 And so make life, death, and that vast forever 
 
 One grand sweet song. 
 
 Charles Kingsley. 
 
INDEX TO POEMS 
 
 PAGQ 
 
 A New Year Motto /. M. C. Bouchard. 28 
 
 Come Up Higher James G. Clarke 9 
 
 Good in Thought James Russell Lowell. 34 
 
 Infinite Love ^y 
 
 My Soul and I Laura Barker. 82 
 
 Old Friends Gerald Massey. 117 
 
 Opportunity James Russell Lowell 1 13 
 
 Prayer Canon Farrar 17 
 
 Santa Teresa's Book Mark 143 
 
 The Mountain and the Squirrel Ralph Waldo 
 
 Emerson 75 
 
 To Know and Do His Will. .Henry Wadsworth Long- 
 fellow 129 
 
 Truth by Majority Edward Rowland Sill. 43 
 
 Wouldst Shape a Noble Life? Goethe. 67 
 
 You Can Never Tell What Your Thoughts 
 Will Do 11 
 
INDEX TO AUTHORS 
 
 PAQB 
 
 Abbott, Dr. Lyman 64 
 
 Alcott, Louise May 88 
 
 Aldrich, Thomas B 38, 138 
 
 Alger, Wm. R 127 
 
 Allen, James Lane ,. .48, 62 
 
 Allen, Mary Wood 133 
 
 Allison, Francis J 39 
 
 Amiel 19, 64, 99 
 
 Arabian, Proverb 45 
 
 Arabic, From the 41 
 
 Arnold, Edwin 118 
 
 Arnold, Matthew 138 
 
 Auerbach, Berthold 59 
 
 Augustine, St 25 
 
 Aurelius, Marcus 38, 41, 62, 74, 122 
 
 Bacon, Francis 60 
 
 Balzac, Honore de 40 
 
 Barker, Laura 82 
 
 Barnum, P. T 109 
 
 Barrows, Rev. S. J 19 
 
 Beaumont and Fletcher 134 
 
 Beecher, Henry Ward 14, 25, 59. 85, 134 
 
 Black, H , 76 
 
 Blinde, Mathilde I43 
 
 Bolton, Sarah K 24 
 
 Bonar, Horatio I45 
 
 Bourdillon, F. U 123 
 
Index to Authors 151 
 
 Bovee , 5 
 
 Brooks, Phillips 24, 53, 59, 78, 91, 108, no, 121, 141 
 
 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett 24, 39, 69, 76, 91, in, 121 
 
 Browning, Robert 19, 48, 55, 73, 87, 89, 93, loi, 112 
 
 124, 142 
 
 Bulwer, Lord Lytton 99, 135 
 
 Burdette, Robert J 36 
 
 Burke, Edmund 119 
 
 Burritt, Elihu 139 
 
 Burroughs, John 126 
 
 Burton, Richard 69 
 
 Bushnell, Horace 20, 86 
 
 Buxton, Charlds 27^ 60, 64 
 
 Byron, George Gordon Noel, Lord 16, 66 
 
 Cady, H. Emilie 52, 76, 94, 130 
 
 Caesar 44 
 
 Carlton, Will 14 
 
 Carlyle, Thomas 12, 44, 51, 68, 81, 103, 120, 125 
 
 Caruth, M. H 65 
 
 Gary, Alice 86, 92 
 
 Catherine of Russia 134 
 
 Cato 33 
 
 Cecil, Robert 10 
 
 Cervantes, Saavedra, de 44 
 
 Chadwick, John White 120 
 
 Channing, W. E 30, 38, 88, 113, 109, 123 
 
 Chap-Book 42 
 
 Chapin, Henry D 29 
 
 Cheney, John Vance 79 
 
 Chesterfield, Philip D. S 51 
 
 Child, Lydia Maria 97 
 
 Chinese Proverb 68 
 
 Clarke, Adam 47 
 
152 Index to Authors 
 
 mBftmmmmamai 
 PAGE 
 
 Clarke, James Freeman 116 
 
 Clarke, James G 9 
 
 Cleveland, Rose E 64 
 
 Clough, A. H 133 
 
 Coleridge, Samuel T 33 
 
 Collyer, Robert 96 
 
 Colton, Walter 80 
 
 Confucius 30, 62, 131 
 
 Cooke, Rose Terry 46 
 
 Coolidge, Susan 139 
 
 Cowper, William 104 
 
 Craddock, Charles Egbert 127 
 
 Cuyler, T. L 53 
 
 Davy, Sir Humphrey 98 
 
 Dickens, Charles .94, 125 
 
 Dickinson, Emilie lOO 
 
 Dresser, H. W 76,84,85,88,111,115,120 
 
 Drew 93 
 
 Drummond, Henry 77, 36, 66, 83, 88 
 
 Dryden, John 112 
 
 Eliot, Chas. H 127, 131 
 
 Eliot, George 40, 73, 127, loi, 102, 112, 125 
 
 Eliot, Henrietta R 23 
 
 Emerson, Ralph Waldo 15, 19, 22, 24, 29, 31, 32, 35, 38, 
 
 44, 46, 47, 48, 54, 55, 57, 66, 70, 71, 87, 93, 97, 98, 108. 
 
 log, 114, 115, 120, 121, 122, 130, 135, 137. 
 
 Epictetus 27, 61, 81 
 
 Ewing, Juliana H 50 
 
 Farrar, Canon 94, 120 
 
 Fletcher, Horace 15, 68 
 
 Foss, S. W 105 
 
Index to Authors 153 
 
 PAGH 
 
 Franklin, Benjamin 94, 121, 133 
 
 French, R. C 81 
 
 Frothingham, N. L 66 
 
 Furness 54 
 
 Gannett, W. C IS, 103 
 
 Gerhardt, Paulus 84 
 
 Gibbon, Edward 22 
 
 Gibbons, Cardinal 131 
 
 Gladstone, William Ewart 10 
 
 Gleim, J. W. L 73 
 
 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang 67, 78, 85 
 
 Goethe's Mother 3c 
 
 Griggs, Edward Howard 128 
 
 Guerin, de, Eugenie 8; 
 
 Hale, Edward Everett 10, 33, 81, 144 
 
 Hale, Sir Mathew 121 
 
 Hall, E. B Ill 
 
 Hamilton, A. E 51 
 
 Hamilton, Gail 119 
 
 Harrison, Elizabeth 85 
 
 Hegeman, Mrs. A. B iii 
 
 Herbert, George 71, 91, 146 
 
 Herbert, Lord Edward 53 
 
 Herder, von, Johann Gottfried 40 
 
 Higginson, Thomas Wentworth ^2y loi 
 
 Hillel, Rabbi 2-7, 96 
 
 Hillis, Newell Dwight 20, ZZ* 58, 46, 84 
 
 Holland, J. G 41 
 
 Holmes, Oliver Wendell 10, 53, 92, 106, 135 
 
 Hosmer, F. L 98 
 
 Howard, Flora 145 
 
 Hov/ard, W. D 54 
 
154 Index to Authors 
 
 FAQB 
 
 Howe, Julia Ward 99 
 
 Howells, William D 58, in 
 
 Hughes, Thomas 106 
 
 Hugo, Victor 59, 68 
 
 Huntington, J. D 27 
 
 Jameson, Anna 54 
 
 Japanese Proverb 27, 131, 140 
 
 Johnson, Samuel .78, 80, 130 
 
 Jones, Jenkin Lloyd 12, 87 
 
 Jordan, David Starr 13, 16, 36, 22, 25, 31, 59, 73, 86, 102, 
 
 104, 126, 135. 
 Jowett, Benjamin 98, 121 
 
 Keary, Annie 97 
 
 Kelty 15 
 
 Kempis, a, Thomas 114 
 
 King, Thomas Starr 35 
 
 Kingsley, Charles 50, 90, 147 
 
 Kipling, Rudyard 124 
 
 La Horke 126 
 
 Lavater, J. K loi, 128 
 
 Le Conte, Joseph 57 
 
 Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim 108 
 
 Lewis, Gertrude 61 
 
 Lincoln, Abraham 24, 119 
 
 Livermore, Mrs. Mary A 18, 51 
 
 Locke, John 51 
 
 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 10, 25, 56, 58, 64, 68, 70, 
 
 99, 127, 129, 146. 
 
 Lowell, James Russell 14, 19, 34, 47, 64, 73, 80, 83, 84, 
 
 100, 113, 144. 
 
 Lubbock, Sir John 50, 64, 100, 123, 126, 128 
 
Index to Authors 155 
 
 PAOO 
 
 Lyon, Mary 60 
 
 Mabie, Hamilton Wright 20, 31, 40, 61, 66, 71, 85, 87, 
 
 108, 112, 114, 124, 127, 140, 142. 
 
 Macdonald, Geo 79, 49, 66, 114, 134 
 
 MacLaren, Ian ^^^ 90 
 
 Mann, Horace 19, 83 
 
 Markham, Edwin 65, 116 
 
 Martineau, James 35, 83, loi, 102 
 
 Mason, Caroline 60 
 
 Massey, Gerald 117 
 
 Materlinck, Maurice 14, 48, 61, 57, 116, 123, 142 
 
 McLean, Rev. J. K 88, 96 
 
 Meredith, George 64 
 
 Merriam, Geo. S 79, 46 
 
 Miller, J. R 62, 133 
 
 Milton, John 114 
 
 Montaigne, de, Michel Eyquem 44. 55, 80, 96 
 
 More, Hannah 35 
 
 Mulford, Prentice 36, 33,124 
 
 Muloch, Dinah Maria 31, 92 
 
 Newcomb, Charles B 14, 22, 41, 53, 59, 62, 98, 116, 126 
 
 Paulist Fathers 109 
 
 Parker, Theodore 103, 113 
 
 Peabody, Andrew Preston 70 
 
 Plato 94, 115, 143 
 
 Pliny 131 
 
 Plutarch 88 
 
 Purington, Lilian 71, 93 
 
 Quarles, Francis 144 
 
 Quincy, Josiah w 78 
 
156 Index to Authors 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Raleigh Sir Walter 96 
 
 Ravignon, de ^7 
 
 Richards, Ellen 132 
 
 Richardson, Ellen A 104 
 
 Richardson, Nellie M 115 
 
 Riley, James Whitcomb 109 
 
 Robertson, F. W 29, 54 
 
 RolHns, Alice W 31 
 
 Rossetti, Christina 80 
 
 Royce, Josiah 136 
 
 Ruskin, John 7, 22, 30, 36, 50, 58, 65, 71, 83, 88, 93, 94, 
 
 115, 125, 144. 
 
 Russell, M. E 139 
 
 Sala, George Augustus. 92 
 
 Sales, de, St. Francis 81, 103, 130 
 
 Savage, Minot T 90 
 
 Scott, Sir Walter 35 
 
 Seneca 81, 99, 106, 118, 130 
 
 Shakespeare, William. 10, 25, 38, 103, 104, 112, 142, 146 
 
 Sidney, Sir Philip 106 
 
 Sill, Edward Rowland 16, 46, 50, ^7 
 
 Smiles, Samuel 29, 66 
 
 Smiley, J. B 22 
 
 Smith, Mary Roberts 70 
 
 Smith, Sidney 30 
 
 Smith, William 20 
 
 Spaulding, Bishop 102 
 
 Spurgeon, Charles Haddon 125 
 
 Stevenson, Robert Louis 146 
 
 Story, William W 86 
 
 Taylor, Jeremy 92, 114 
 
 Tesla, Nikola 103 
 
Index to Authors 157 
 
 FAQH 
 
 Tennyson, Alfred 79, 119, 135 
 
 Thaxter, Celia 31 
 
 Thomas, H. W 35 
 
 Thoreau, Henry D 12, ^2, 22, 30, 40, 44, 47, 76, 93, 100, 
 
 106, 134. 
 
 Torrey, Bradford 138 
 
 Toynbee, Arnold 142 
 
 Trine, R. W 16, 74 24, 38, 87, 123 
 
 Twain, Mark 146 
 
 Van Dyke, Henry 55 
 
 Virgil 58 
 
 Voltaire, de, Frangois Marie Arouet 29 
 
 Ward, Mrs. Thomas Humphrey 105 
 
 Ware, J. F. W 31 
 
 Warner, Anna 57 
 
 Washington, George 47, 96, 122 
 
 Watts, Isaac 137 
 
 Wendte, Charles W 145 
 
 Wescott, Canon 133 
 
 Whiting, Lilian 29, 30, ZZ, 44, 46, 47, 50, Si, 7i, 1^. 7Zy 
 
 74, 78, 84, 92, loi, 104, 105, 106, 108, 112, 114, 118, 122, 
 
 125. ^Z^, iZ7y 145. 
 
 Whittier, John Greenleaf 20, 146, 53, 119 
 
 Wood, Henry 57, 63, 118, 138 
 
 Worcester, Alice E 63 
 
 Wordsworth, William 15, 59 
 
 Yoga, Raja : 68 
 
 Yong, Edward 108 
 
 Zimmermann, von, Johann Georg 78 
 
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