y and faithfully what you are, be humbly what you aspire
to be.--Thoreau.

If people only knew their own brothers and sisters, the Kingdom of
Heaven would not be far off.--George MacDonald.

The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angel.
--Dickens.

If every day we can feel, if only for a moment, the realization of
being our best selves, you may be sure that we are succeeding.--Bliss
Carman.

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's
stone.--Benjamin Franklin.

He only is advancing in life, whose heart is getting softer, whose
blood warmer, whose brain quicker, whose spirit is entering into
living peace.--Ruskin.

The fine art of living, indeed, is to draw from each person his best.
--Lilian Whiting.

Reflect upon your present blessings--of which every man has many--not
on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.--Dickens.

If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and
life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs--is more
elastic, more starry, more immortal--that is your success.--Thoreau.

Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds.--Congreve.

The microscope gives us a world, a universe, a single drop of
dew. So also there is a world in a single profound, earnest
meditation.--Madame Swetchine.

Better is it to have a small portion of good sense, with humility and
a slender understanding, than great treasures of science, with vain
self-complacency.--Thomas a Kempis.

There is one road to peace and that is truth.--Shelley.

He hath from his childhood conversed with books and bookmen; and
always being where the frankincense of the temple was offered, there
must be some perfume remaining about him.--Thomas Fuller.

Everything great is not always good, but all good things are great.
--Demosthenes.

The turmoil of the world will always die, if we set our faces to climb
heavenward.--Hawthorne.

If I can put one touch of a rosy sunset into the life of any man or
woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.--George MacDonald.

Our business in life is not to get ahead of other people but to get
ahead of ourselves.--Maltbie D. Babcock.

The narrow kingdom of to-day is better worth ruling over than the
widest past or future.--Edith Wharton.

There's always a bloom on the world if one looks.--Abby M. Roach.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.--George Eliot.

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