e Bonald.

Not what has happened to myself to-day, but what has happened to
others through me--that should be my thought.--Frederick Deering
Blake.

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to
bear are those which never come.--Lowell.

The highest luxury of which the human mind is sensible is to call
smiles upon the face of misery.--Anonymous.

He who is plenteously provided for from within, needs but little from
without.--Goethe.

Each day should be distinguished by at least one particular act of
love.--Lavater.

Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his
abilities, and for no more; and none can tell whose sphere is the
largest.--Gail Hamilton.

Work is the very salt of life, not only preserving it from decay, but
also giving it tone and flavor.--Hugh Black.

Treat your friends for what you know them to be. Regard no surfaces.
Consider not what they did, but what they intended.--Thoreau.

Work! It is the sole law of the world.--Emile Zola.

No lot is so hard, no aspect of things is so grim, but it relaxes
before a hearty laugh.--George S. Merriam.

Concentration is the secret of strength.--Emerson.

Anybody can do things with an "if"--the thing is to do them without.
--Patrick Flynn.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to
be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.--R. L. Stevenson.

The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder; a waif, a
nothing, a no-man. Have a purpose in life ... and having it, throw
such strength of mind and muscle into thy work as has been given
thee.--Carlyle.

It is better to be worn out with work in a thronged community than to
perish of inaction in a stagnant solitude.--Mrs. Gaskell.

The advantage of leisure is mainly that we have the power of choosing
our own work; not certainly that it confers any privilege of
idleness.--Lord Avebury.

Suffering becomes beautiful, when any one bears great calamities with
cheerfulness, not through insensibility, but through greatness of
mind.--Aristotle.

Character is a perfectly educated will.--Novalis.

One of the most massive and enduring gratifications is the feeling of
personal worth, ever afresh, brought into consciousness by effectual
action; and an idle life is balked of its hopes partly because it
lacks this.--Herbert Spencer.

Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it
out.--Tillotson.

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