It is great, and there it no other greatness - to make one nook of God's creation more fruitful, better, more worthy to God; to make some human heart a little wiser, manlier, happier - more blessed, less accursed.

- Carlyle

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

- Gibbon

Blessed are the joymakers.

- N. Willis

The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it in turn will look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly, kind companion.

- W. Thackeray

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness. Speak approving, cheering words while their ears can hear them and while their hearts can be thrilled by them.

- H. Beecher

I do not value fortune. The love of labor is my sheet-anchor. I work that I may forget, and forgetting, I am happy.

- S. Girard

A more perfect race means a more souful race, a more soulful race a race having greater capacity for love.

- Ellen Kay

Whatever strengthens the affections, enlarges the imagination, and adds spirit to sense, is useful.

- Shelley

To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face, to greet the day with reverence for the opportunities it contains; to approach my work with a clean mind; to hold ever before me, even in the doing of little things, the ultimate purpose toward which I am working; to meet men and women with laughter on my lips and love in my heart; to be gentle, kind and courteous through all the hours; to approach the night with weariness that never wooes sleep and the joy that comes from work well-done - this is how I desire to waste wisely my days.

- T. Dreier

A picture is a poem without words.

- Horace