Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.--J. G. Holland.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
--Johnson.

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.--Disraeli.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.--Thackeray.

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.--Publius
Syrus.

Economy is of itself a great revenue.--Comtelburo.

Grace is the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
--Hazlitt.

Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a
distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.--Carlyle.

Pull on the oar and not on your influential friends.--A. E. Winship.

The noblest mind the best contentment hath.--Spenser.

To be usefully and hopefully employed is one of the great secrets of
happiness.--Smiles.

The man who has begun to live more seriously within, begins to live
more simply without.--Phillips Brooks.

Everything in this world depends upon will.--Disraeli.

A man is valued according to his own estimate of himself.--Comtelburo.

All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of
truth.--Whately.

Mightier than all the world, the clasp of one small hand upon the
heart.--John Townsend Trowbridge.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.--Napoleon.

Character must stand behind and back up everything--the sermon, the
poem, the picture, the play. None of them is worth a straw without
it.--J. G. Holland.

The question every morning is not how to do the gainful thing, but how
to do the just thing.--John Ruskin.

Resolve to be thyself; and know that he who finds himself, loses his
misery.--Matthew Arnold.

I hate a thing done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly; if it be
wrong, leave it undone.--Gilpin.

What we need most is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize
the real.--F. H. Hedge.

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CHAPTER V

THE VALUE OF SUNSHINE

Do people like you?

Are your girl playmates and classmates fond of your society? Are they
eager to work with you, play with you, go strolling or sit by the fire
with you?

This one fact we must know; if we are not liked it must be because we
are not the possessors of that fine quality known as "likableness."
And if those who have had an opportunity to know us and our traits of
character do not love and admire us, it is we and not they who are
responsible f