The great man must have that intellect which puts in motion the intellect of others.

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR.

Train yourself to unselfishness in what the world calls little things.

E. E. HALE.

The crown of patience cannot be received where there has been no suffering. If thou refusest to suffer thou refusest to be crowned; but if thou wishest to be crowned thou must fight manfully and suffer patiently. Without labor none can obtain rest, and without contending there can be no conquest.

THOMAS A KEMPIS.

Alas, how easily things go wrong!

A sigh too much, or a kiss too long,
And there follows a mist and a weeping rain,
And life is never the same again.

GEORGE MACDONALD.

The man who cannot be trusted with his own business is not to be trusted with the

king's.

SAVILE.

He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

BEECHER.

Thou shalt need all the strength that God doth give

Simply to live, my friend, simply to live.

F. W. H. MYERS.

The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand forever.

Nor deem the irrevocable past

As wholly wasted, wholly vain,

If, rising on its wrecks, at last

To something nobler we attain.

LONGFELLOW.

When Death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness we repent of, but our severity.

GEORGE ELIOT.

Walk boldly and wisely in that light thou hast;

There is a hand above will help thee on.

BAILEY.

I hear, yet say not much, but think the

ward, does what we call union, mutual love, and society begin to be possible.

CARLYLE.

Dare to be true; nothing can need a lie; A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby.

GEORGE HERBERT.

It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.

My crown is called content;

A crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.

SHAKESPEARE.

All things work together for good to them that love God.

In all women's deepest loves, be they ever so full of reverence, there enters sometimes much of the motherly element.

MISS MULOCK.

Why should we ever wear black for the

guests of God?

JOHN RUSKIN.

Greatly begin! Though thou hast time

But for a line, be that sublime;

Not failure, but low aim is crime.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in Heaven.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

O. W. HOLMES.

What we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles we had it.

SHAKESPEARE.

Except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.

There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at, but they are the smiles that make wrinkles and not dimples.

O. W. HOLMES.

Be but yourselves, be pure, be true,
And prompt in duty; heed the deep
Low voice of conscience.

WHITTIER.

None wield such absolute power over others as those who think little about themselves.

MISS MULOCK.

Whatsoever thing thou doest
To the least of mine and lowest,
That thou doest unto me.

LONGFELLOW.

The dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them; they can be injured by us, they can be wounded, they know all our penitence, all our aching sense that their place is empty, all the kisses we bestow on the smallest relic of their presence.

GEORGE ELIOT.