He is, in my opinion, the noblest who has raised himself by his own merit to a higher station.-CICERO. He is the freeman whom the truth makes free. -COWPER. He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.-GOETHE. He lives long who lives well; the time misspent is not lived, but lost.-THOMAS FULLER. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.-BAILEY'S Festus. He needs no tears who lived a noble life. -FITZ JAMES O'BRIEN. He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small. -COLERIDGE. He serves all who dares to be true.-EMERSON. He serves his party best who serves his country best. -RUTHERFORD B. HAYES. He that can have patience can have what he will. -FRANKLIN. He that has no cross will have no crown.-QUARLES. "He that is thy friend indeed, He will help thee at thy need." He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss. -JOHN LOCKE. He that revels in a well-chosen library has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavor.-WILLIAM GODWIN. He that sips of many arts, drinks of none.-FULLER. He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green.-BACON. "He thinks he is right and is strong enough to trust his own mind." He who excuses himself accuses himself. -GABRIEL MEURIER. He who has once become notorious in the busy centres of life is not permitted even to die in silence and obscurity.-CICERO. He who hurts others injures himself; he who helps others advances his own interest.-BUDDHA. He who is preparing destruction for another, may be certain that his own life is in danger.-CICERO. He who rises earlier than his competitors, and who works more hours within the limits of healthful endurance, will carry off the prize.-DAVID DUDLEY FIELD. "He who waits for certainty never wins." He who would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.-Worship. He who would end superior must begin inferior. -SIDNEY SMITH. He whom love rules, where'er his path may be, Walks safe and sacred. -TIBULUS. Health cut off means life reduced in attractiveness and reality by five-sixths.-AMIEL. Health is best for mortal man; next, beauty; thirdly, well-gotten wealth; fourthly, the pleasure of youth among friends.-SIMONIDES. "Heaven never helps the man who will not act." Hold your thought, your mind, your will and principle, and you will succeed.-EVA C. HULING. Honest labor bears a lovely face.-DECKER. "Honest work is the only 'sure thing.' 999 Honesty first; then courage; then brains-and all are indispensable.-ROOSEVELT. Honorable industry always travels the same road with enjoyment and duty, and progress is altogether impossible without it.-SAMUEL SMILES. "Hope for the best, prepare for the worst, and take what the Lord sends." Hope is a leaf-joy which may be beaten out to a great extension like gold.-BACON. How beautiful can time with goodness make an old man look!-JERROLD. How far that little candle throws his beams, so shines a good deed in a naughty world.-SHAKESPEARE. Human knowledge is the parent of doubt. -GREVILLE. Humanity and social sympathy are the glory of our age.-NEWELL D. HILLIS. Hurry not only spoils work, but spoils life also. -LUBBOCK. I am a part of all that I have seen.-TENNYSON. I assure you no work is worse than overwork; the mind preys on itself, the most unwholesome of food. -CHARLES LAMB. I attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only driving a tack straight. -RUSSELL H. CONWELL. I began life with a sixpence, and believe that a man's best capital is his industry.-GIRARD. I cannot hear what you say for listening to what you are.-EMERSON. I cannot too often repeat that no man struggles perpetually and victoriously against his own character. -H. S. BULWER. I close my eyes with the blessed consciousness that I have left one shining track upon the earth.-BEETHOVEN. I dare not more fret than I dare curse and swear. -JOHN WESLEY. I did not fall into love-I rose into love.-BULWER. I don't believe that the way to make a man love heaven is to disgust him with earth. Let us love all that is bright and beautiful and good in this world.-BEECHER. I don't know which is th' hardest-t' remember whut I ought t' remember, er ferget whut I ought t' ferget. -Josh Wise. I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything. -BEECHER. I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.-ABRAHAM LINCOLN. I doubt whether the ferocity of the battlefield is as merciless as is the remorseless onslaught of unscrupulous passion.-JULIA WARD HOWE. I felt that I was in the world to do something, and I thought I must.—WHITTIER. I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving. -HOLMES. I go at what I am about as if there was nothing else in the world for the time being.-CHARLES KINGSLEY. I had a friend.—CHARLES KINGSLEY. I hate a thing done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly; if it be wrong, leave it undone.-GILPIN. I have discovered the philosopher's stone that turns everything into gold; it is, "Pay as you go." -RANDOLPH. I have generally found that the man who is good at an excuse is good for nothing else.-FRANKLIN. I have made as much of myself as could be made of the stuff and no man should require more. -JEAN PAUL RICHTER. I have made it a rule never to be with a person ten minutes without trying to make him happier. -DR. RAFFLER. I have made myself what I am by intense labor. -PORSON. I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the first condition.-EMERSON. I hope you are becoming more and more interested in making those around you happy. That is the true way to secure your own happiness.-ROBERT E. LEE. I know not any season of life that is passed more agreeably than that of virtuous old age.—CICERO. |