The most certain sign of wisdom is a continued cheerfulness.—Montaigne.
Dreaming great things is good but doing simple things may be better. There ought to be, and there will be more dreams than deeds, just as there are more blossoms on the tree than can mature and ripen into perfect fruit.
Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.—Wordsworth.
We shall always have to divide our attention between the things we can do and the things we should like to do. Dreaming is an interesting pastime but we should not devote too many precious moments to
THE PLEASURES OF “IFFING”
“If” this or that were thus and so,
Oh, wouldn’t it be clever!
But “ifs,” alas! won’t make it so
Though we should “if” forever.