To make the world fuller of beauty
Because you are in it a while.
A young man cannot honestly make a success in any business unless he loves his work.—Edward Bok.
“Of all virtues cheerfulness is the most profitable. While other virtues defer the day of recompense, cheerfulness pays down. It is a cosmetic which makes homeliness graceful and winning. It promotes health and gives clearness and vigor to the mind; it is the bright weather of the heart in contrast with the clouds and gloom of melancholy.” These words from the writings of one of our sunniest philosophers are worth much gold to one who will ever keep them in mind.
There is a great deal more to be got out of things than is generally got out of them, whether the thing be a chapter of the Bible or a yellow turnip.—MacDonald.
Sydney Smith says that “all mankind are happier for having been happy; so that, if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.” This being true we should do all in our power to turn men from gloom to gladness; from the shadows to sunshine. With this purpose in mind I have written
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE PESSIMIST
The boy who does not go to school does not know what Saturday is.—Babcock.
Brother—you with growl and frown—
Why don’t you move from Grumbletown,