Give but a smile to sorry men,
They’ll give it, bettered, back again.
Method is like packing things in a box; a good packer will get in half as much again as a bad one.—Cecil.
Bovee very truly says, “The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards.”
If it required no brains, no nerve, no energy, no work, there would be no glory in achievement.—Bates.
“I have gout, asthma, and seven other maladies,” said Sydney Smith, “but am otherwise very happy.” How often those with whom we meet are sorely afflicted and yet their cheerful faces do not betray their troubles. They are too considerate of our happiness to sadden our minds with their woes. Those whom we deem fretful without sufficient excuse, if indeed any excuse justifies the habit of fretting, may be much more sorely afflicted than we think they are. There is a world of sympathetic truth in that old saying
“TO KNOW ALL IS TO FORGIVE ALL”
It is not what one can get out of work, but what he may put in, that is the test of success.—Lilian Whiting.
If I knew you and you knew me—