ence for others governs our manners.

If you want to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want,
what you like, what respect people pay you, and what people think of
you.

One great impediment to the rapid dissemination of new truths is that a
knowledge of them would convict many sage professors of having long
promulgated error.

The leaves that give out the sweetest fragrance are those that are the
most cruelly crushed; so the hearts of those who have suffered most can
feel for others' woes.

Each of us can so believe in humanity in general as to contribute to
that pressure which constantly levers up the race; can surround
ourselves with an atmosphere optimistic rather than the
contrary.--_Selected_.

He who has more knowledge than good works is like a tree with many
branches and few roots, which the first wind throws on its face; while
he who does more than he says is like a tree with strong roots and few
branches, which all the winds can not uproot.--_Talmud_.

If we waited until it was perfectly convenient, half of the good
actions of life would never be accomplished, and very few of its
successes.

A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad
track, but one inch between wreck and smooth rolling prosperity.

Prayer is the key of day and lock of the night; and we should every day
begin and end, bid ourselves good morrow and good night, with prayer.

In order to love mankind, expect but little from them; in order to view
their faults without bitterness, pardon them. The wisest men have
always been the most indulgent.

There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere the pure
and fresh buds can open they are trodden in the dust of the earth, and
lie soiled and crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.

Many of the men we calmly set down as failures may have been doing as
much as those who have made ten times as much noise in the world. A
great deal of the best work in the world is anonymous, if we do not
confine the term to writing.

To a man of brave sentiments midnight is as bright as noonday, for the
illumination is within.

That man who lives in vain lives worse than vain. He who lives to no
purpose lives to a bad purpose.--_Nevins_.

Labor is the law of the world, and he who lives by other men's means is
of less value to the world than the buzzing, busy insect.

Deep is the sea, and deep is hell, but pride runneth deeper; it is
coiled