--_Ella Wheeler Wilcox._

To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.

--_Shakespeare._

Cloud and sun together make the year;
Without some storms no rainbow could appear.

--_Alice Cary._

The noblest service comes from nameless hands,
And the best servant does his work unseen.

--_Oliver Wendell Holmes._

He who seeks to pluck the stars
Will lose the jewels at his feet.

--_Phoebe Cary._

For he who is honest is noble,
Whatever his fortunes or birth.

--_Alice Cary._

There's never a leaf or a blade too mean
To be some happy creature's palace.

--_James Russell Lowell._

No endeavor is in vain.
Its reward is in the doing;
And the rapture of pursuing
Is the prize the vanquished gain.

--_Longfellow._

Press on! if once and twice thy feet
Slip back and stumble, harder try.

--_Benjamin._

Dare to do right; dare to be true;
The failings of others can never save you;
Stand by your conscience, your honor, your faith--
Stand like a hero, and battle till death!

He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth
his spirit, than he that taketh a city.

--_Bible._

He prayeth best who loveth best
All things, both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.

--_Coleridge._

Hours are golden links, God's token,
Reaching heaven, but one by one
Take them; lest the chain be broken
Ere the pilgrimage be done.

--_A. A. Proctor._

There is a lesson in each flower,
A story in each stream and bower;
On every herb on which we tread,
Are written words which, rightly read,
Will lead us from earth's fragrant sod
To hope and holiness and God.

Oh, many a shaft at random sent,
Finds mark the archer little meant!
And many a word at random spoken,
May soothe, or wound, a heart that's broken.