—Lilian Whiting.
“Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world.”
Let not future things disturb thee, for thou wilt come to them if it shall be necessary, having with thee the same reason which thou now usest for present things.
—Marcus Aurelius.
We hear much said of “environment.” We need to realize that environment should never be allowed to make the man, but that man should always, and always can, condition the environment. When we realize this, we will find that many times it is not necessary to take ourselves out of any particular environment, because we may yet have a work to do there; but by the very force we carry with us, we can so affect and change matters that we will have an entirely new set of conditions in an old environment.
—Ralph Waldo Trine.
FABLE.
The mountain and the squirrel
Had a quarrel,
And the former called the latter “Little Prig”;