, we cease to be interesting.--John Lancaster
Spalding.

The workless people are the worthless people.--Wm. C. Gannett.

Our ideals are our better selves.--Bronson Alcott.

All literature, art, and science are vain, and worse, if they do not
enable you to be glad, and glad, justly.--Ruskin.

All things else are of the earth, but love is of the sky.--William
Stanley Braithwaite.

To fill the hour, that is happiness.--Emerson.

Ah, well that in a wintry hour the heart can sing a summer song.
--Edward Francis Burns.

Avast there! Keep a bright lookout forward and good luck to you.
--Dickens.

Genius is the transcendent capacity for taking trouble first of all.
--Carlyle.

For dreams, to those of steadfast hope and will, are things wherewith
they build their world of fact.--Alicia K. Van Buren.

No man can rest who has nothing to do.--Sam Walter Foss.

Love is the leaven of existence.--Melvin L. Severy.

Work is no disgrace but idleness is.--Hesiod.

Shoddy work is not only a wrong to a man's own personal integrity,
hurting his character; but also it is a wrong to society. Truthfulness
in work is as much demanded as truthfulness in speech.--Hugh Black.

The flowering of civilization is in the finished man, the man of
sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson.

It is all very well to growl at the cold-heartedness of the world, but
which of us can truthfully say that he has done as much for others as
others have done for him?--Patrick Flynn.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work, and
done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise, shall give him
no peace.--Emerson.

Some people meet us like the mountain air and thrill our souls with
freshness and delight.--Nathan Haskell Dole.

I let the willing winter bring his jeweled buds of frost and snow.
--Edward Francis Burns.

The world is unfinished; let's mold it a bit.--Sam Walter Foss.

Our wishes are presentiments of the capabilities which lie within us
and harbingers of that which we shall be in a condition to perform.
--Goethe.

Do not let us overlook the wayside flowers.--Joe Mitchell Chapple.

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or
misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a
thunderstorm.--R. L. Stevenson.

The wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and
blesses, and by which he is loved and blessed.-