t laughed.
--Chamfort.

It is impossible to be just if one is not generous.--Joseph Roux.

People glorify all sorts of bravery, except the bravery they might
show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.--George Eliot.

How active springs the mind that leaves the load of yesterday behind.
--Pope.

One of the most charming things in girlhood is serenity.--Margaret E.
Sangster.

Every generous nature desires to make the earning of an honest living
but a means to the higher end of adding to the sum total of human
goodness and human happiness.--Frances E. Willard.

Attempt the end, and never stand in doubt; nothing's so hard but
search will find it out.--Richard Lovelace.

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to
love this life and live it as bravely and cheerfully and faithfully as
we can.--Henry Van Dyke.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes books.
--Benjamin Franklin.

Anxiety never yet successfully bridged over any chasm.--Ruffini.

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but
by degrees?--Shakespeare.

Duty determines destiny. Destiny which results from duty performed,
may bring anxiety and perils, but never failure and dishonor.--William
McKinley.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
--Emily Dickinson.

No book is worth anything which is not worth much; nor is it
serviceable, until it has been read, and reread, and loved, and loved
again.--Ruskin.

Wise, cultivated, genial conversation is the best flower of
civilization.--Emerson.

It is so easy to perceive other people's little absurdities, and so
difficult to discover our own.--Ellen Thornycroft Fowler.

------------------------------------------------------------------------

CHAPTER VII

GOLDEN HABITS

We often hear persons speaking of "the force of habit" as though it
were something to be regretted. "Habit is second nature," is a saying
that is included among the classic epigrams of men. That habits do
become very strong, all the world has learned, sometimes to its sorrow
and sometimes to its advantage and delight.

For be it known that good habits are just as strong as bad habits and
in that we should all feel a common joy and a sense of deliverance
from wrong doing.

The fact that a fixed habit is only a matter of long and gradual
growth ought to be very much to our advantage. This very fundamental
principle of their construct