It is dull, slow, hard work, especially the preparation.

All preparation is drudgery.

When this little whirling globe of ours began to cool in space think
what a task lay before it! Think of the mass of chaos, which had to
slowly shape itself into mighty, green, glad and snow-capped mountains,
fertile vales, and noble forests.

Each one of us is a little world, whirling alone on an individual
orbit, but the divine power is within us, to grow into symmetry,
beauty, and perfection if we only realize it.

And the happiness of the work, once we begin it, is beyond the power of
description.

There is no other satisfaction can compare with that of looking back
across the years and finding that you have grown in self-control, in
charity of judgment, in a sense of justice, in generosity, and in
unselfishness.

If you are conscious of this growth, let no lack of material success
for one moment disturb you. That will come, enough for your need, in
time.

The man of symmetrically developed character is never a pauper.

He is never dependent for more than a temporary period.

To possess character is to be useful, and to be useful is to be
independent, and to be useful and independent, is to be happy, even in
the midst of sorrow; for sorrow is not necessarily unhappiness.

The man who has made the development of a noble and harmonious
character the business of his life, accepts his sorrows as means of
greater growth, and finds in them an exaltation of spirit which is
closely allied to happiness.

To such a nature, absolute wretchedness would only be possible through
the loss of self-respect; the lowering of an ideal or the failure of a
principle.

Would you be happy and successful? Then set yourself to _build
character_.

Seek to be worthy of your own highest commendation.

Wisdom

A great many people are attracted to the New Thought of the day, by its
declaration of our right to material wealth, and by its claim that the
mind of man can create, command, and control conditions which produce
wealth.

There is no question concerning the truth of this claim.

But woe unto him who cultivates his mental and spiritual powers only
for this purpose.

His gold shall turn to dross, his pleasure to Dead Sea fruit.

He shall be as one who drags a beautiful garment through the mud of the
streets, and while clothed in purple and fine linen is yet a repulsive
object.

Into the Great Scheme of Existence, as fi