Pray For Powers Equal To Your Tasks.

The Essential Tendency Of Life Is Toward Happiness . . . . Optimism Is The Only True Condition For A Reasonable Man.

To Say 'well Done'to Any Bit Of Good Work Is To Take Hold Of The Powers Which Have Made The Effort And Strengthen Them Beyond Our Knowledge.

It Is Not Pride When The Beech-tree Refuses To Copy The Oak. He Knows His Limitations. The Only Chance Of Any Healthy Life For Him Is To Be As Full A Beech-tree As He Can.

Only The Soul That With An Overwhelming Impulse And A Perfect Trust Gives Itself Up Forever To The Life Of Other Men, Finds The Delight And Peace Which Such Complete Self-surrender Has To Give.

Very Strange Is This Quality Of Our Human Nature Which Decrees That Unless We Feel A Future Before Us We Do Not Live Completely In The Present.