nd better, is the highest ambition,
the most elevating hope, which can inspire a
human being.--LUBBOCK

Small service is true service while it lasts.
Of humblest friends, bright creature! scorn not one:
The daisy, by the shadow that it casts,
Protects the lingering dew-drops from the sun.
--WORDSWORTH

Look up and not down;
Look forward and not back;
Look out and not in;
And lend a hand.
--HALE

Have you had a kindness shown?
Pass it on.
'Twas not given for you alone,
Pass it on.
Let it travel down the years,
Let it wipe another's tears;
Till in heaven the deed appears.
Pass it on.

A little spring had lost its way
Amid the grass and fern;
A passing stranger scooped a well
Where weary men might turn.
He walled it in, and hung with care,
A ladle on the brink;
He thought not of the deed he did,
But judged that Toil might drink.
He passed again; and lo! the well,
By summer never dried,
Had cooled ten thousand parched tongues,
And saved a life beside.
--MACKAY

Evil is wrought by want of thought
As well as want of heart.
--HOOD

Nature has given to men one tongue, but two
ears, that we may hear from others twice as
much as we speak.--EPICTETUS

Count that day lost whose low-descending sun
Views from thy hand no worthy action done.

If happiness have not her seat
And centre in the breast,
We may be wise or rich or great,
But never can be blest.
--BURNS

A kindly act is a kernel sown,
That will grow to a goodly tree,
Shedding its fruit when time has flown,
Down the gulf of eternity.

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
Into his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
--DICKINS