—Tennyson.
Pin thy faith to no man’s sleeve; hast thou not two eyes of thine own?
—Carlyle.
Do your best loyally and cheerfully, and suffer yourself to feel no anxiety nor fear. Your times are in God’s hands. He has assigned you your place: He will direct your paths; He will accept your efforts, if they be faithful.
—Canon Farrar.
When we cease to look upon any experience as too hard, we have made a decided step in wise adjustment to life.
—H. W. Dresser.
A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts, but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.
—Emerson.
The choir invisible! Who are members of it, if not all those who in any way are doing the day’s work, whatever it may be, as well as they know how; who are trying to make the world happier and pleasanter for those to whom their lives are naturally bound.