—Louisa May Alcott.
No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.
—Channing.
Contentment comes neither by culture nor by wishing; it is reconciliation with our lot, growing out of an inward superiority to our surroundings.
—Rev. J. K. McLean.
At times it is only necessary to rest one’s self in silence for a few minutes, in order to take off the pressure and become wonderfully refreshed.
—Dresser.
Touchiness, when it becomes chronic, is a morbid condition of the inward disposition.
It is self-love inflamed to the acute point.
—Drummond.