A WORLD of gathered sunshine

Is this warm heart of mine,
Where life hath heaped the fruitage,
And love hath hid the wine.
And though there's not a flower
In field, nor leaf on tree;
Yet welcome is the winter

That brings my Love to me.

Gerald Massey.

EVERY day is a fresh beginning,

Listen, my soul, to the glad refrain,
And spite of old sorrow, and older sinning,
And puzzles forecasted, and possible pain,
Take heart with the day, and begin again.

November 26.

Susan Coolidge.

To get rid of provinciality is a certain stage of culture; a stage the positive result of which we must not make of too much importance, but which is, nevertheless, indispensable, for it brings us on to the platform where alone the best and highest intellectual work can be said fairly to begin.

Matthew Arnold.

NEGLECT not to improve life in the present with superior persons; for opportunity is precious.

Saadi.

FOR the average man or woman, it is not enough to realize the value to his fellows of the service he can perform; he must hold the recipient worthy of such service. Frank C. Sharp.

HERE was the lofty truth revealed, that each
Must feel himself in all, must know where'er
The great soul acts or suffers or enjoys,
His proper soul in kinship there is bound,
Then my life-purpose dawned upon my mind,
Encouraging as morning.

November 28.

Emma Lazarus.

PEOPLE are always talking of perseverance and courage and fortitude; but . . . patience is the finest and worthiest part of fortitude, and the rarest, too . . . for patience lies at the root of all pleasure, as well as of all power.

Ruskin.

How various his employments, whom the world
Calls idle, and who justly in return
Esteems that busy world an idler, too!

Cowper.