Tats* Class JM Ml Book X S Copyright N° COPYRIGHT DEPOSIT. MOSAIC ESSAYS i% •**» AndholforLove- Each one for hfeWdghbtfr, torandStudy AndLwi fits for fhtf MQ3AIC FRIENDSHIP LOVE HAPPINESS NATVRE 3VCCESB Composed \$y PAiHEkki: l^ngiii&And AndholfbrLove- fashenefbr hfeKdghbar; toaidStudy and Low IstfoLifctiiAt fitsfcrihe Jay above. MOSAIC FRIENDSHIP LOVE HAPPIMESS NATVRE 5VCCES& CempJ&zd by Mosaic Essays Friendship- Love Happiness -Nature & Success Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars. Henry van Dyke. Composed bt Paul Elder Paul Elder and Company San Francisco and New York Every year I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the self- ish prudence that will risk nothing, and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well. No one ever yet was the poorer in the long run for having once in a lifetime " let out all the length of all the reins' 1 Mary Cbolmondeley. * ^ & v Mosaic Essays, Copyright, 1906 Friendship, Copyright,-! 901 Love, Copyright, 1905 Happiness, Copyright, 1903 Nature, Copyright, 1903 Success, Copyright, 1903 LIBRARY of CONGRESS Two Copies Received NOV 9 ?906 ^ Ctpyrif ht Entry CUSS J{ XXc„ No, The Tomoye Press THE ESSAYS FRIENDSHIP Page i So long as we love we serve ; so long as we are loved by others I would almost say that we are indispensable ; and no man is useless while be has a friend. R L S LOVE Page 19 Owe no man any thing but to love one another , for be that lovetb another bath ful- ■P Paul to the Romans. HAPPINESS- Page 37 In every fart and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy. R L g NATURE Page 55 Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies , / bold you here j root and all, in my band t Little flower — but IF I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is. Tennyson. SUCCESS Page 73 The truth which another man has won from nature or from life is not our truth until we have lived it. Only that becomes real or helpful to any man which has cost the sweat of bis brow, the effort of bis brain, or the anguish of bis soul. He wbo would be wise must daily earn bis wisdom. David Starr Jordan. FRIENDSHIP // is a name Virtue can only answer to : couldst thou Unite into one all goodness what- soe'er Mortality can boast of, thou shalt find Vhe circle narrow, bounded to con- tain This swelling treasure. Every good admits Degrees; but this, being so good, it can not; For he's no friend who's not super- lative. shirky% Friendship is love for another because of what that other is in himself or for that other s sake, and not because of what that other is to the loving one. . . . Friend- ship is love with the selfish element eliminated. It is an out-going and an on-going affection, wholly and inherently disinterested, and in no sense contingent upon any reciprocal relation between its giver and its object, nor yet upon its return or recognition. . . . Friendship, in short, is love apart from love's claim, or love* s craving. . . . This is pure friendship, friendship with- out alloy. This is friendship at its truest and best; and this it is that makes the best and truest friend- ship so rare, so difficult of concep- tion, so liable to misconception. Trumbull. Friendship Ah, friend, let us be true To one another! For the world which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night. — Matthew Arnold. ^^» v^— ^-* O friend, my bosom said, Through thee alone the sky is arched, Through thee the rose is red, All things through thee take nobler form And look beyond the earth, And is the mill-round of our faith, A sun-path in thy worth ! Me, too, thy nobleness has taught To master my despair; The fountains of my hidden life Are through thy friendship fair. — Emerson. Friendship A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. — Emerson. £ £ £ Friendship is love without either flowers or veil. —J. C. Hare. £ £ Friendship is that by which the world is most blessed and receives most good. — Jeremy Taylor. & & & Friendship is the only point in human affairs concerning the benefit of which all, with one voice, agree.— Cicero. $. $. ^t Friendship is the highest de- gree of perfection in society. — Montaigne. «§> $. £ Friendship is a word the very sight of which in print makes the heart Warm. — Augustine Birrell. ^ ^> £ Friend is a word of royal tone ; friend is a poem all alone. — A Persian Poet. £ £ £ Friend- ship divine, true happiness of heaven, sole motion of the sole wherein excess is righteous. — Voltaire. £ «j> ^* The only rose without thorns is friendship. — MUe.de Scuderi. £ £, £ Reason is the torch of friendship, judgment its guide, tenderness its aliment.— De Bonald. ^,^>^> In Analysis We can never replace a friend. When a man is fortunate enough to have sev- eral, he finds they are all different. No one has a double in friendship. — Schiller. &>&>& We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected. — Emerson. £ £ £ A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him. — George D. Prentice. £ £, ^> You Can not extort friendship with a cocked pistol. — Lindey Smith. £££ There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We can not force it any more than love. — Hazlitt. ^.^^ To contract ties of friendship with any one is to contract friendship with his virtue. — Confucius. £ ^J, £ People who always receive you with great cor- Friendship diality rarely care for you. Your true friends make you a partaker of their humors. — Manlay H. Pike. ^ ^ ^ Actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends. — George Washington. ^t^.^. Rare as true love is, it is less rare than true friendship. — La Rochefoucauld. ^t^.^. Not even love should rank above true friendship's name. — w. S. Gilbert. Above our life we love a steadfast friend. Constancy — Marlowe. £££ True friendship be- tween man and man is infinite and im- mortal. — Plato. £ £ £ True friends, nor death, nor separating fate can e'er di- vide. — Lavater. ^> f§f. & A friend loveth at all times, and is born as a brother for adversity. —Solomon. ^.^.^ Friendship that flows from the heart can not be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring can not congeal in winter. — J. Fenimore Cooper. ^. ^> £ Convey thy love to thy friend, as an Constancy arrow to the mark, to stick there; not as a ball against the wall to rebound back tO thee. — - Francis Quarks. £ £ £ No- ble friends are a pledge to the noble of God and the future; true friends, nor death, nor separating fate can divide. — Lavater. ^ ^ ^ Love is a sudden blaze which soon decays; friendship is like the sun's eternal rays ; not daily benefits exhaust the flame, it still is giving, and still burns the same. — Gay. ^«£^> First on thy friend deliberate with thyself; pause, ponder, sift; not eager in thy choice, nor jealous of the chosen ; fix- ing, fix ; judge before friendship, then Confide till death. — Edward Young. ^ £ £ We were friends from the first mo- ment. Sincere attachments begin at the beginnings. — Joseph JefFerson. £££ Friends, though they be as the friends of Job, or else death !— The Talmud. ^.«£^. All love which depends on something, when the thing ceases, the love ceases ; 8 Friendship but such love as does not depend on anything, ceases not forever. — The Talmud. & & & Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable to him ; a new friend is as new wine ; when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure. — Proverbs. £ ^ ^> While I am I, and you are you, so long as the world con- tains us both, me the loving and you the loth, while the one eludes must the other pursue. — Robert Browning. £ £ ^ Old books, old wine, old nankin blue, all things, in short, to which belong the charm, the grace that Time makes strong — all these I prize, but (entrenous) old friends are best. — Austin Dobson. ^^.^b " Entreat me not to leave thee, and to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge. Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried. The Lord Constancy do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me." — Book of Ruth. ^^^ Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart ; so doth the sweetness of a man's friend that cometh of hearty counsel. Thine own friend and thy father's friend forsake not. — Solomon. ^ & ^ Let the honor of thy friend be dear unto thee as thine own. — The Talmud. Friendship renders ItS JxCWCtru prosperity more bril- liant, while it lightens adversity by shar- ing it and making its burden common. — Cicero. £$.$. A friend shares my sorrow and makes it but a moiety ; but he swells my joy and makes it double. —Jeremy Taylor. ^. «£. £ Under the mag- netism of friendship the modest man becomes bold ; the shy, confident ; the lazy, active ; or the impetuous, prudent and peaceful. —Thackeray, ^^i^ It is a good thing to be rich, and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to io Friendship be beloved of many friends. —Euripides. ^.J§£$. For there is no man that im- parteth his joys to his friend, but he joyeth the more ; and no man that im- parteth his griefs to his friend, but he grieveth the less. — Bacon. ^>^^ Of all felicities the most charming is that of a firm and gentle friendship. It sweet- ens all our cares, dispels our sorrows, and counsels us in all extremities. — Seneca. <£ ^ £ Ah, how good it feels — the hand of an old friend ! — Longfellow. ^.^^fe He that hath gained a friend hath given hostages tO fortune.— Shakespeare. & & & The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one. — Seneca. ^> ^. ^> You may not know my supreme happiness at having one on earth whom I can call friend.— Charles Lamb. «|» «£. «§►. How were Friendship possible ? In mutual devoted- ness to the Good and True : otherwise impossible, except as armed neutrality, Its Reward n or hollow commercial league. A man, be the heavens ever praised, is sufficient for himself; yet were ten men, united in Love, capable of being and of doing what ten thousand singly would fail in. Infinite is the help man can yield to man. — Carlyle. «|* «£ «£ What need we have any friends, if we should ne'er have need of 'em? They were the most needless creatures living, should we ne'er have use for 'em, and would most resemble sweet instruments hung up in cases that keep their SOUnds tO themselves. — Shakespeare. ^t^.^. I would not live without the love of my friends.— John Keats, ^i^^> When true friends meet in adverse hour, 'tis like a sunbeam through a shower; a watery ray an instant seen, the darkly closing clouds between. — Sir Walter Scott. Let friendship creep Cautionary gendy to a height; if it rush to it, it may soon run itself OUt of breath. — Thomas Fuller. «§> «£ ^. 12 Friendship There are many moments in friendship, as in love, when silence is beyond words. — Ouida. ^ ^ ^ Too late we learn a man must hold his friend un- judged, accepted, faultless to the end. —John Boyle O'Reilly. £ ^ £ Take heed of thy friends. A faithful friend is a strong defense; and he that hath found such a one hath found a treasure. Noth- ing doth countervail a faithful friend, and his excellency is invaluable. — Proverbs. ^ ^ ^ We must not expect our friend to be above humanity. — Ouida. ^ £ ^> A friend whom you have been gain- ing during your whole life, you ought not to be displeased with in a moment. A stone is many years becoming a ruby ; take care that you do not destroy it in an instant against another stone. — Saadi. ^.^.^ We must love our friends for their sakes rather than our own. — Charlotte Bronte. £ «j> «£ Friendship is usually treated by the majority of man- Cautionary 13 kind as a tough and everlasting thing which will survive all manner of bad treatment. But this is an exceedingly* great and foolish error ; it may die in an hour of a single unwise word. — Ouida. «£.$.$. The holy passion of Friend- ship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. — Samuel L. Clemens. & & &> There is no folly equal to that of throwing away friendship in a world where friendship is so rare. — Edward Bulwer. & $. $. It is more disgraceful to dis- trust than to be deceived by our friends. —La Rochefoucauld. «£ «|* ^> Thy friends thou hast and their adoption tried ; grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel, but do not dull thy palm with en- tertainment of each new-hatched, un- fledged Comrade. —Shakespeare. «£ £ ^ Who friendship with a knave hath made is judged a partner in the trade.— John Gay, 14 Friendship In love women exceed the generality of men, but in friendship we have infin- itely the advant- age. - La Bruycre. MiM dtld Women No friendship is so cordial as that be- tween girls ; no hatred so intense as that of Woman for Woman. — Walter Savage Landor. Love Him, and keep Him ^ . . . for thy Friend, who, when J all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suf- fer thee to perish at the last. — Thos. a Kempis. ?ft & ^. Hush, I pray you ! what if that friend happen to be — God ! — Browning- So if I live or die to ^ serve my friend, 'tis for * n * r WUte my love, — 'tis for my friend alone, and not for any rate this friendship bears in heaven or on earth. — George Eliot. £ £ £, If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved my friend, I find it could not otherwise be expressed than by the answer, " Because he was he ; because I Was I." — Montaigne. £, £ £ In Tribute 15 I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan : very pleasant hast thou been unto me ; thy love to me was wonder- fill, passing the love of women. —David. & ^ & Ah, friendship, stronger in thy might than time and space, as faith than sight ! rich festival with thy red wine my friend and I will keep, in courts divine. — Helen Jackson. ^ ^ ^ Whereof the man, that with me trod this planet, was a noble type, appearing ere the times were ripe, that friend of mine who lives with God.— Tennyson. £ £ ^» A friend can not And iLncmieS be known in pros- perity, and an enemy can not be hidden in adversity. —Theophrasms. ^^>jg> He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. — Omar Khayyam. ^ ^£ £ When you make a new friend, think of the future enemy who is already in him.— Schopenhauer. 16 Friendship Friendship is to be valued for what there is in it, not for what can be got- ten out of it. When two people ap- preciate each other because each has found the other convenient to have around, they are not friends, they are simply acquaintances, with a business understanding. A true friend is always useful in the higher sense : but we should beware of thinking of our friends as brother members of a mutual benefit association, with its periodical demands and threats of suspension for non-payment of dues. — Trumbull. Sheik Schubli, taken sick, was borne one day unto the Hospital. A host the way behind him thronged. " Who are you?" Schubli cried. "We are your friends/' the multitude replied. Sheik Schubli threw a stone at them ; they fled. " Come back, ye false pre- tenders !" then he said ; " a friend is one who, ranked among his foes by him he loves, and stoned, and beat with blows, will still remain as friendly as before, and to his friendship only add the more." — Jamee. Translated by Alger, In the hour of distress and mis- ery the eye of every mortal turns to friendship ; in the hour of glad- ness and conviviality % what is your want? It is friendship. When the heart overflows with gratitude ', or with any other sweet and sacred sentiment, what is the word to which it would give utterance? A friend. w% 8 Landgn LOVE Love, indeed, is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Allah given, 'To lift from earth one low desire. Devotion wafts the mind above, But heaven itself descends in love; A feeling from the Godhead caught, To wean from self each sordid thought; A ray of Him who form d the whole; A glory circling round the soul. Byron. True loves the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven ; It is not fantasy s hot fire *, Whose wishes , soon as grant ed, fly ; It liveth not in fierce desire , With dead desire it doth not die; It is the secret sympathy > The silver link, the silken tie y Which heart to heart, and mind to mind. In body and in soul can bind. San. Love 21 Abou-ben-Adhem ( may his tribe increase ! ) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw, within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold: — Exceeding peace had made Ben-Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, " What writest thou ? " The vision rais'd its head, And with a look made of all sweet accord, Answer' d, "The names of those who love the Lord." " And is mine one ? " said Abou. " Nay, not so," Replied the angel. Abou spoke more low, But cheerily still ; and said, " I pray thee, then, Write me as one that loves his fellow men." The angel wrote, and vanished. The next night It came again with a great wakening light, And show'd the names whom love of God had bless' d, And lo ! Ben-Adhem's name led all the rest. — Leigh Hunt. £*£ Love is that childlike art, that clothes the Real With the Ideal, its own simple self; Not the poor poet's lifelong grand despair Forever seeking that he cannot find. — Frederick Tennyson. 22 hove No man can afford to invest his being in anything lower than faith, hope, love, — these three, the greatest of which is love. — Henry Ward Beecher. £ £ ^. Love is swift, sincere, * / Analysis pious, pleasant, gentle, ^ strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long- suffering, manly, and never seeking her own, for wheresoever a man seeketh his own; then he falleth from love. — Thomas a Kempis. £ £, £ Love Suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily pro- voked, thinketh no evil ; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth ; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. — Paul to the Corinthians. *J. £ £ Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man. — Emerson. ^-^«§> Love is not altogether a delirium. Analysis 23 yet it has many points in common therewith. I call it rather a discerning of the infinite in the finite, — of the ideal made real. — Carlyle. ^> £ £ The principle of life, the element of religion, the link between the soul and God, — love. — Lew Wallace. £ £ £ Love is the life of the soul. It is the harmony of the Universe. — William Ellery Channing. £ £. ^ True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanc- tifies the existence. — Amid. ^.^^ And love, life's fine center, includes heart and mind. — Owen Meredith. £ £ 4^ True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime. — Lamartine. &> k£* ^ Pure love cannot merely do all, but is all. — Richter. £ £ £ Love is the river of life in this world. Think not that ye know it who stand at the little tinkling rill, the first small fountain. Not until you have gone through the rocky gorges, and not lost the stream ; not until you have gone through the 24 Love meadow, and the stream has widened and deepened until fleets could ride on its bosom ; not until beyond the meadow you have come to the unfath- omable ocean, and poured your treasures into its depths, — not until then can you know what love is. — Henry Ward Beecher. ^L & & Love is ever the beginning of knowledge. — Carlyle. ^> ^* £ Love is im- pulse, no doubt, but true love is impulse wisely directed.— Haweis. ^ £, £ Our love is inwrought in our enthusiasm as eledlri- city is inwrought in the air, exalting its power by a subtle presence. — George Eliot. Love never faileth ; but Supreme whether there be proph- ecies, they shall fail ; whether there be tongues, they shall cease ; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part and we prophesy- in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. When I was a child, I Supreme 25 spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child : but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly ; but then face to face : now I know in part ; but then shall I know even as also I am known. And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three : but the greatest of these is love. — Paul to the Corinthians. £ £ £ In the sublimest flights of the soul, redtitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown. — Emerson. ij> ^.^, Love is the eldest and noblest and might- iest of the gods, and the chiefest author and giver of virtue in life and of happiness after death. — Plato. ^, ^> £ -r^ . . For God so loved the world, Divine . . . . .- that he gave his only be- gotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have ever- lasting life. —Jesus, Holy Writ. ^. £ £ For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor 26 Love powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any- other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ JeSUS, our Lord. — Paul to the Romans. &&& Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you : continue ye in my love. —Jesus, Holy Writ. ^ £ £ There is nothing holier in ^ this life of ours than the first consciousness of love — the first fluttering of its silken wings — the first rising sound and breath of that wind which is so soon to sweep through the soul, to purify or to destroy. — Longfellovr. & ^£ $. Love one human being purely and warmly, and you will love alL The heart in this heaven, like the wan- dering sun, sees nothing, from the dew- drop to the ocean, but a mirror which it warms and fills. — Richter. £ £ £* Let no Human 27 man think he is loved by any man, when he loves no man. — Epictetus. ^ «j* ^. To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of lov- ing is angelic. — Lamartine. £ j£ £ So long as we love we serve. — R. L. s. £ £ ^ Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy- self.— Jesus, Holy Writ. £ £, ^ Without dis- tinction, without calculation, without procrastination, love. Lavish it upon the poor, where it is very easy ; espe- cially upon the rich, who often need it most ; most of all upon our equals, where it is very difficult, and for whom perhaps we each do least of all. — Henry Dmmmond. £ £ ^> We are all bom for love. It is the principle of exist- ence and its only end. — Disraeli. ^» ^> £ No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with only a single thread. — Lord Bacon. ^ £ ^ The consciousness of being loved softens the keenest pang, even at the moment 28 hove of parting ; yea, even the eternal fare- well is robbed of half its bitterness when uttered in accents that breathe love to the last sigh. — Addison. ^^.^ If a man does not exercise his arm he develops no biceps muscle ; and if a man does not exercise his soul, he ac- quires no muscle in his soul, no strength of character, no vigor of moral fiber, nor beauty of spiritual growth. Love is not a thing of enthusiastic emotion. It is a rich, strong, manly, vigorous ex- pression of the whole round Christian character — the Christlike nature in its fullest development. And the constitu- ents of this great character are only to be built up by ceaseless practice. — Henry Drummond. <£ ^. ^> Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health is short lived, and apt to have ague fits. —Erasmus. ^> £ £ There is no happiness in the world in which love does not enter; and love is but the Human 2g discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. —Alexander Smith. ^.^t^. It is best to love wisely, no doubt ; but to love foolishly is bet- ter than not to be able to love at all. — Thackeray. «£ ^> ^ 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. — Tennyson. «§. £ £ Thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of Women. — David to Jonathan. £ ^ £ j * 7 Even He that died for Maternal . . . us upon the cross, in the last hour, in the unutterable agony of death, was mindful of His mother, as if to teach us that this holy love should be our last worldly thought, — the last point of earth from which the soul should take its flight for heaven. — Longfellow. «£ & £ There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son, that transcends all other affections of the heart. It is neither to be chilled by selfishness, nor daunted by danger, 30 Love nor weakened by worthlessness, nor Stifled by ingratitude. — Washington Irving. ^.^.$. "It is a wonderful thing, a mother ; other folks can love you, but only your mother understands. She works for you, looks after you, loves you, forgives you anything you may do, understands you, and then the only thing bad she ever does to you is to die and leave yOU." — Baroness Von Huttcn. ^ ^> £ There is no love like the good old love — the love that mother gave us. — Eugene Field. £ £ ^> A mother never is afraid of speaking angrily to any child, since love, she knows, is justified of love. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning. £ £ ^> And Jacob served seven ^ c r> u i j Constancy years ior Rachel ; and J they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her. — Genesis. & & ^L It is confessed that love changed often doth nothing ; nay, it is nothing : for love where it is kept fixed to its Constancy ji first object, though it burn not, yet it warms and cherishes, so it needs no transplantation or change of soul to make it fruitful. — Suckling. ^ «£ £, Loving is more than length of days, or the ruby lips and the blooming cheek. — Walter C. Smith. £ £ ^. And love is the sun of life, yet e'en love compels the life of an ampler love which death re- veals.— C w. Stubbs. £££ Unless you can swear for life or death, oh! fear tO Call it loving. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning. & & & For time's long years may sever, but love that liveth ever, calls back the early rapture — lights again the angel face. — C F. Alexander. £ £ ^ I will We thee to the death, and out beyond into the dream beyond. — Tennyson. ^ ^ ^ jy j Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have en- tered into the heart of men, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him. — Paul to the Corinthians. «j> ^ Q 32 Love Be perfedt, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you. — Paul to the Corinthians. ^. £ £ The king- dom of God is in the realm of your own consciousness. The law of the kingdom is Love. Obey this law, keep the commandments which grow out of the law of Love, and all other things shall be added unto you. — Theodore F. Seward. ^ ^ ^ For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye ! — Jesus, Holy Writ. £ £ £ Where- fore I say unto thee, her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much; but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little. —Jesus, Holy Writ. £ £ ^> By love's delightful influence the attack of ill-humour is resisted, the violence of our passions abated, the bit- ter cup of afHidtion sweetened, all the injuries of the world alleviated, and the sweetest flowers plentifully strewed Reward 33 along the most thorny paths of life. — Zimmerman. ^> £ «j> Whether love be natural or no, it contributes to the hap- piness of every society into which it is introduced. All our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals: love is a method of protracting our greatest pleasure.— Goldsmith. £££ Nothing is so fierce but love will soften, nothing so sharp-sighted in other matters but it throws a mist before the eyes on't. — 1/ Estrange. ^ £. £. Love is better than spectacles to make everything seem great. — Philip Sidney. ^ ^. A Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away, but love stays with us. Love is God. — Lew Wallace. & £ £ With love come life and hope.— John Sterling. ^^^ Love finds the need it fills. — George Eliot. ^ ^ ^ Perfect love casteth out fear. —John, Epistle. £££ Love strengthens and ennobles the character, and gives nobler aim to every action of life. — Jewesbmy. 34 Love Love, — oh, chillen, my pore tongue can't tell you of the beauty and good- ness o' the fairy Love ! She's the mes- senger of a great King, and spends her whole time a-blessin' folks. Her hair shines with the gold o' the sun; her eyes send out soft beams; her gown is w'ite, and when she moves 'tis as if forget-me-nots and violets was runnin' in little streams among its folds. Ah, chillen, she's the blessin' o' the world! Her soft arms are stretched out to gather in and comfort every sorrowin' heart. ___ Thg A ^ k Woman ^ Clara Louise Burnkam. S- 5- S-» A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. — Jesus, Holy Writ. 'Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge ; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it prof- iteth me nothing. Paul to the Corinthians. HAPPINESS " The best things are nearest : breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of lifer To ignore trifling annoyances, to avoid ultra-fastidiousness, to con- done human frailties, " remember- ing whereof we are all made " ; to think the East wind will "go round to the South" to believe that the darkest hour is just before dawn" — in a word, "to make the best of things," is to become a ■public benefactor, without profes- sion of philanthropy. * & Happiness is that single j£ na ly S l s and glorious thing which is the very light and sun of the whole animated universe; and where she is not it were better that nothing should ■be. — Colton. £.£.£, Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love. — AmieL £££ Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. If we at- tempt to steal a glimpse of its features it disappears. — Alexander Smith. ^ £ £, Happiness is not found in self-contem- plation, it is perceived only when it is reflected from another. —Johnson. f§^ £, £ Analysis 41 Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it, and by no means in the way the future keeps its promises. — George Sand. «£^.^. Happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven. — Washington Irving. ^* j£ ^> Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. —Douglas Jerrold. ^> «§> £ Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happi- ness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach. —Johnson. $.«£ «£ Rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken. — Longfellow. ^^.^ A happy life is not made up of negatives. Exemption from one thing is not possession of another. — Landor. £ £ £ Happiness consists in activity : such is the constitution of our nature; it is a running stream, and not a Stagnant pool. —John M. Good. £££ Happiness is a very beautiful thing, — the most beautiful and heavenly thing in the world, — but it is a result, a 42 Happiness spiritual condition, and is not prede- termined by a bank account or by the flattering incense of praise. — Lilian Whiting. &>&£> There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lies happiness. — Gelett Burgess. £ £ ^> These are only hours that are not wasted — these hours that absorb the Soul and fill it with beauty. This is real life, all else is illu- sion, or mere endurance. — Richard Jeffries. Happiness in this j fJ ^ tta i nment world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it; but likely enough it is gone the moment we say to ourselves, " Here it is ! " like the chest of gold that treasure- Its Attainment 43 seekers find. — Hawthorne. ^ ^ ^ There is no happiness, then, but in a virtuous and self-approving conduct. Unless our actions will bear the test of our sober judgments and reflections upon them, they are not the actions, and, consequently, not the happiness, of a rational being. — Franklin. £ «£, «£ Happi- ness pursued is never overtaken, because little as we are, God's image makes us so large that we cannot live within our- selves, nor even for ourselves, and be satisfied. It is not good for a man to be alone, because, rightly, self is the smallest part of us. Even God found it good not to be alone, but to create objects for His love and benevolence. —George w. Cable. Q £ An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding ; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself. — R. L. S. ^t $. & An inspiration is a joy for ever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, 44 Happiness a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a rev- enue of pleasurable activity. To have many of these is to be spiritually rich. — R. L. S. ^^^> Happiness is only to be found in a recurrence to the prin- ciples of human nature, and these will prompt very simple measures. — Disraeli. ft ft ft Happiness is the natural flower of duty. — Phillips Brooks. £. £ ^> Forti- tude, justice, and candor, are very neces- sary instruments of happiness, but they require time and exertion. — Sydney Smith, ft ft. ft Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion.— -Froude. <£ £ £ To be a painter does it suffice to arm one's self with a brush, or does the purchase at great cost of a Stradivarius make one a musi- cian ? No more, if you had the whole paraphernalia of amusement in the perfection of its ingenuity, would it Its Attainment 45 advance you upon your road to happi- ness. But with a bit of crayon a great artist makes an immortal sketch. It needs talent or genius to paint; and to amuse one's self the faculty of being happy; whoever possesses it is amused at slight COSt. — Charles Wagner. ^ £ ^> The happiness or unhappiness of men de- pends no less upon their dispositions than their fortunes. — La Rochefoucauld. £. f§L ^ Wherever Life is simple and sane true pleasure accompanies it as fragrance does uncultivated flowers. — Charles Wagner. ^ £ £ And to get peace, if you do want it, make for yourself nests of pleasant thoughts. Those are nests on the sea, indeed, but safe beyond all others. Do you know what fairy palaces you may build of beautiful thought, proof against all ad- versity ? Bright fancies, satisfied memo- ries, noble histories, treasure-houses of precious and restful thoughts, which 4 6 Happiness care cannot disturb, nor pain make gloomy, nor poverty take away from us — houses built without hands for OUr SOuls tO live in. — John Ruskin. ^.^^. Happiness is a condition attained through worthiness. To find your life yOU must lose it. — Lilian Whiting. £ £ £ The road to happiness is the continuous effort to make others happy. The chief aim of life ought to be usefulness, not happiness ; but happiness always follows usefulness. — Talmage. ^* «|* ^ No man can be happy without exercising the virtue of a cheerful industry or activity. No man can lay in his claim to happi- ness, I mean the happiness that shall last through the fair run of life, with- out chastity, without temperance, with- out sobriety, without economy, without self-command, and, consequently, with- out fortitude; and, let me add, without a liberal and forgiving spirit.— John M. Good. & & f§L If a man is unhappy, this Its Attainment 47 must be his own fault; for God made all men to be happy. — Epictetus. ^ £ ^ Unfailing though tfulness of others in all those trifles that make up daily con- tact in daily life, sweetness of spirit, the exhilaration of gladness and of joy, and that exaltation of feeling which is the inevitable result of mental peace and loving thought, — these make up the World Beautiful, in which each one may live as in an atmosphere always attending his presence. — Lilian Wniting. &&& To watch the corn grow, or the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over plowshare or spade; to read, to think, to love, to pray, — these are the things that make men happy.— John Ruskin. & & $. He who is virtuous is wise ; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy. — Boetnius. £ ^ ^ Df/fv There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of be* ing happy. By being happy, we sow 48 Happiness anonymous benefits upon the world, which remain unknown even to our- selves, or when they are disclosed, sur- prise nobody so much as the benefactor. — R. L. S. ^> ^> £ Let us take issue with despondency and break a lance against fear and rejoice in our day. Let a cheerful confidence in our country- men, in our institutions, in our means of civilization and progress, take rest in our hearts and live in our families. _«C» (Mrs. James Farley Cox). & £ £ The responsibility is on each and all of us to live on the ideal plane; to realize in outward action, in every deed and word, those qualities which we recog- nize as pertaining to the higher life. For it is these that produce the Spirit- ual, and to live this higher life is to live in happiness, even in holiness. —Lilian Whiting. £ f£ £ Expediency is man's wisdom. Doing right is God's. — Geo. Meredith. £ £ £ Like the king- Duty 49 dom of heaven, the World Beautiful is within; and it is not only a privilege, but an absolute duty so to live that we are always in its atmosphere. — Lilian Whiting. £> &> ^ We ought to be as cheerful as we can, if only because to be happy ourselves, is a most effectual contribu- tion to the happiness of others. — Lubbock. &&& Happiness should be regarded as the normal condition of life; and when one is below it, he should inquire into the reason, and see if it is not a result of causes which can be removed or changed. No one has any more right to go about unhappy than he has to go about ill-bred. — Lilian Whiting. £££ Today is your day and mine; the only day we have; the day in which we play our part. What our part may sig- nify in the great whole we may not understand ; but we are here to play it, and now is our time. This we know : it is a part of action, not of whining. So Happiness It is a part of love, not cynicism. It is for us to express love in terms of human helpfulness. This we know, for we have learned from sad experi- ence that any other source of life leads toward decay and Waste. — David Starr Jordan. Mankind are always r* r> j , / Its Rewards happy for having been happy ; so that, if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it. — Sydney Smith. ^> ^> «£ Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good. — Landor. «g>, ^> ^ Happiness does a way with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty. — Amid. ^ £ £ We are contented because we are happy, and not happy because we are contented. — Landor. £ «£ f£ Happiness is an equiva- lent for all troublesome things. — Epictetus. #. & & If we do our best ; if we do not magnify trifling troubles ; if we Its Rewards 5 1 look resolutely, I do not say at the bright side of things, but at things as they really are; if we avail ourselves of the manifold blessings which sur- round us, we cannot but feel that life is indeed a glorious inheritance. — Lubbock. Praver ^^ e ^ a ^ returns anc * brings us the petty round of irri- tating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man, help us to perform then with laughter and kind faces, let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day, bring us to our resting beds weary and content and dishonoured, and grant us in the end the gift of sleep.— R. L. s. ^,«£<£ Who rises from Prayer a better man, his Prayer is an- swered. —Geo. Meredith. ^ «j» ^» For this reason so many fall from God, who have attained to Him: that they cling to Him with their Weakness, and not in their Strength. — Geo. Meredith. S 2 Happiness Recipe for a Happy Life Three ounces are necessary, first of patience, Then of repose and peace; of con- science A pound entire is needful: Of pastimes of all sorts, too, Should be gathered as much as the hand can hold; Of pleasant memory and of hope three good drachms There must be at least. But they should moistened be With a liquor made from true pleasures which rejoice the heart. Then of love's magic drops a few— But use them sparingly, for they may bring a flame Which naught but tears can drown. Grind the whole and mix therewith of merriment an ounce To even. Yet all this may not bring happiness Except in your orisons you lift your voice To Him who holds the gift of health. — Written by Margaret of Navarre in 1 500. Happy Thought The World is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. „ , ° Robert Louts Stevenson. NATURE Nature never did betray The heart that loved her ; 'tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy : for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, ^ Shall eer prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings. Wtrdswortb. There is a pleasure in the path- less woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society where none in- trudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar : I love not Man the less, but Nature more, From these our interviews, in which I steal From all I may be, or have been before, To mingle with the Universe, and feel What I can neef express, yet can- not all conceal, Byron, Nature 57 Under the greenwood tree Who loves to lie with me, And tune his merry note Unto the sweet bird's throat — Come hither, come hither, come hither: Here shall he see No enemy But winter and rough weather. Who doth ambition shun And loves to live i' the sun, Seeking the food he eats And pleased with what he gets — Come hither, come hither, come hither: Here shall he see No enemy But winter and rough weather. — Shakespeare. To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language. — Bryant. 58 Nature Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own fresh- ness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. — John Muir. £ £ ^> Rest- ing quietly under an ash tree, with the scent of flowers, and the odour ©f green buds and leaves, a ray of sunlight yonder lighting up the lichen and the moss on the oak trunk, a gentle air stirring in the branches above, giving glimpses of fleecy clouds sailing in the ether, there comes into the mind a feeling of intense joy in the simple fact of living. — Jefferies. &&& What happiness to fling down the heavy chain of daily life and escape to the country, where one can breathe freely and taste the noble rapture of a few hours' independence; where the heart is lifted up and the thoughts turn to con- templation; where one is overjoyed Peace 59 at finding one's self — humanity — alone with Nature ! — Maurice de Guerin. &&&. All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but with the best things, of this world; not with money and titles, horses and carriages, but with bright and happy thoughts, contentment and peace of mind. — John Lubbock. £ f£, £ By day or by night, summer or winter, beneath trees, the heart feels nearer to that depth of life which the far sky means. The rest of spirit, found only in beauty, ideal and pure, comes there because the distance seems within touch of thought. — Jefferies. ^t & $. My garden, with its silence and the pulses of fragrance that come and go on the airy undulations, affects me like sweet music. Care stops at the gates, and gazes at me wistfully through the bars. Among my flowers 60 Nature and trees Nature takes me into her own hands, and I breathe freely as the first man. — Alexander Smith. ^£ ^. £, Nature stretches out her StfCTlPth arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal great- ness. Willingly does she follow his steps with the rose and the violet, and bend her lines of grandeur and grace to the decoration of her darling child. Only let his thoughts be of equal scope, and the frame will suit the picture. — Emerson. ij> ^. ^ There is a majesty and mystery in Nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels from every province of her empire. — Carlyle. & $. & What is it we look for in the landscape, in sunsets and sunrises, in the sea and the firmament? What but a compensation for the cramp and pet- tiness of human performances ? We bask in the day, and the mind finds Strength 61 something as great as itself. In Nature, all is large, massive repose. — Emerson. ft ft ft The truths of Nature are one eternal change, one infinite variety. There is no bush on the face of the globe exactly like another bush ; there are no two trees in the forest whose boughs bend into the same net-work, nor two leaves on the same tree which could not be told one from the other, nor two waves in the sea exactly alike. — Ruskin. t Nature, like a loving mother, Love . . I,",, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign Supreme. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton. £ ft «£ Where Nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial. — Froude. ft ft ft The love which speaks and sings and sighs in one part of creation 62 Nature is revealed in the other half in the form of flowers. All this efflorescence, with its wealth of forms and colours and per- fumes, which gives splendour to the fields, is the expression of love, is love itself, which celebrates its sweet myster- ies in the bosom of every flower. — Maurice de Guerin. ^ «§> «§t Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love. — Mrs. Jameson. ^^,^> On the heaths and /-> . • / • T Companionship moors, where I l * have so long enjoyed the wonders of Nature, I have never been, I can hon- estly say, alone ; because when man was not with me, I had companions in every bee, and flower and pebble; and never idle, because I could not pass a swamp, or a tuft of heather, without finding in it a fairy tale of which I could but de- cipher here and there a line or two, and yet found them more interesting than all the books, save one, which were ever Companionship 63 written upon earth. —Kingsley. ft ft ft There is no solitude in Nature. — Schiller, ft ft ft The tempered light of the woods is like a perpetual morning, and is stimulating and heroic. The an- ciently reported spells of these places creep on us. The stems of pines, hem- locks, and oaks, almost gleam like iron on the excited eye. The incommuni- cable trees begin to persuade us to live with them, and quit our life of solemn trifles. Here no history, or church, or state, is interpolated on the divine sky and the immortal year. — Emerson, ft ft ft Those who love Nature can never be dull. They may have other temptations ; but at least they will run no risk of being beguiled, by ennui,, idleness, or want of occupation, "to buy the merry madness of an hour with the long penitence of after time." The love of Nature, again, helps us greatly to keep ourselves free from those mean 64 Nature and petty cares, which interfere so much with calm and peace of mind. It turns " every ordinary walk into a morning or evening sacrifice,' ' and brightens life until it becomes almost like a fairy tale. — John Lubbock. £ £ £ It is a great moment J nter p retat ; on in a man's experi- ence when he awakes to the wonder of the world about him, and begins to see it with his own eyes, and to feel afresh its subtle and penetrating charm. From that moment the familiar earth and sky become miracles once more, and his spirit is hourly recreated in their pres- ence. — Hamilton Wright Mabie. ^ £ £, To speak truly, few adult persons can see Nature, Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very super- ficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child. — Emerson. ^t ^fe. ?fe To see in all mountains noth- I Interpretation 65 ing but similar heaps of earth, in all rocks nothing but similar concretions of solid matter, in all trees nothing but similar accumulations of leaves, is no sign of high feeling or extended thought. — Ruskin. £ «j> ^. Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest re- sults with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, flowers, water and love. Of course, if the spectator be without the last, the whole will present but a pitiful appearance; and, in that case, the sun is merely so many miles in dia- meter, the trees are good for fuel, the flowers are classified by stamens, and the water is simply wet. — Heine. ^ ^. £ Man is incomprehensible without Nature, and Nature is incomprehensible apart from man. For the delicate loveliness of the flower is as much in the human eye as in its own fragile petals, and the splendor of the heavens as much in the imagination that kindles 66 Nature at the touch of their glory as in the shin- ing of COUntleSS Worlds. — Hamilton Wright Mabic. £, £ £ We animate what we can, and we see only what we animate. Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man, whether he shall see the sunset or the fine poem. There are al- ways sunsets, and there is always genius ; but only a few hours so serene that we can relish nature or criticism. — Emerson. When I would beget j cf^fc content and increase confidence in the power and wisdom and providence of Almighty God, I will walk the meadows by some gliding stream, and there contemplate the lilies that take no care, and those very many other little living creatures that are not only created, but fed (man knows not how) by the goodness of the God of Nature, and therefore trust in Him. — Izaak Walton. ^> ^. ^> Every time that r A Teacher 67 we allow ourselves to be penetrated by Nature, our soul is opened to the most touching impressions. Whether Nature smiles and adorns herself on her most beautiful days, or whether she becomes pale, gray, cold, and rainy, in autumn and in winter, there is something in her which moves not only the surface of the soul, but even its inmost depths, and awakens a thousand memories which to all appearances have no con- nection with the outward scene, but which doubtless hold communion with the soul of Nature through sym- pathies Unknown tO US. — Maurice de Guerin. ^t f§L 4t* Nature seems to have been created to inspire feeling. — Thomas Stan King. ^, f£ «£ Nature is the true ideal- ist. When she serves us best, when, on rare days, she speaks tothe imagination, we feel that the huge heaven and earth are but a web drawn around us, that the light, skies and mountains are but the 68 Nature painted vicissitudes of the soul. — Emerson. ft- ^ &> Mountains seem to have been built for the human race, as at once their schools and cathedrals; full of treasures of illuminated manuscript for the scholar, kindly in simple lessons for the worker, quiet in pale cloisters for the thinker, glorious in holiness for the worshipper. They are great cathedrals of the earth, with their gates of rock, pavements of cloud, choirs of stream and stone, altars of snow, and vaults of purple traversed by the continual stars. — Ruskin. £££ The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though al- ways present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred im- pression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her per- fection. Nature never became a toy to A Teacher 69 a wise spirit. The flowers, the animals, the mountains, reflected the wisdom of his best hour, as much as they had delighted the simplicity of his child- hood.— Emerson. £££ Nature is hiero- glyphic. Each prominent fact in it is like a type ; its final use is to set up one letter of the infinite alphabet, and help us, by its connections, to read some state- ment or statute applicable to the con- scious World. — Thomas Starr King. £ ^> £ We are shown that no suffering, no self-examination, however honest, how- ever stern, no searching-out of the heart by its own bitterness, is enough to con- vince man of his nothingness before God; but that the sight of God's creation will do it. — Ruskin. £ £ £ Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns in fishing, yachting, hunting or planting is the manners of Nature ; — patience with many delays. — Emerson. 70 Nature The World is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers ; Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sor did boon! —Wordsworth. S- 9* S- In June 'tis good to lie beneath a tree, While the blithe season comforts every sense, Steeps all the brain in rest, and heals the heart, Brimming it o'er with sweetness un- awares, Fragrant and silent as that rosy snow Wherewith the pitying apple-tree fills up, And tenderly lines some last year rob- ins nes *. -Lowell. 5-- ^£- ^P* Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky ; The dew shall weep thy fall to-night; For thou must die. —Herbert. The year's at the Springy And days at the Morn ; Morning's at seven ; The bill-side's dew-pearled : The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn; God's in his heaven — All's right with the world! Robert Browning, SUCCESS O brother, we must if possible resuscitate some soul and conscience in us, exchange our dilettantisms for sincerities, our dead hearts of stone for living hearts of flesh ! "Then shall we discern, not one thing, but, in clearer, dimmer se- quence, a whole endless host of things that can be done. Do the first of these: doit; the second will have become clearer, do abler; the second, third, and three-thousandth will then have begun to be possible f or US - Thomas Carlylc. O toiling bands of mortals! O unwearied feet , traveling ye know not whither ! Soon, soon, it seems to you, you must come forth on some conspicuous hill-top, and but a little way further, against the setting sun, descry the spires of El Do- rado. Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hope- fully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor. Robert Louis Sttvenst9t Success 75 I Am the Captain of My Soul. Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds, and shall find, me unafraid. It matters not how straight the gate, How charged with punishment the scroll, I am the master of my fate : I am the captain of my soul. — William Ernest Henley. 76 Success I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores public opinion, the other private opinion ; one fame, the other desert ; one feats, the other humility ; one lucre, the other love ; one monopoly, and the other hospitality of mind. — Emerson. & & ^ No one has success until he has the abounding life. This is made up of the many-fold activity of energy, enthusiasm and gladness. It is to spring to meet the day with a thrill at being alive. It is to go forth to meet the morning in an ecstasy of joy. It is to realize the oneness of humanity in true spiritual sympathy. It is, indeed, that which one is; not that which he has. — Lilian Whiting. <£ £ £ The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.— Oliver Wendell Holmes. £ ^* £, The only failure a man ought to fear is failure Real Success 77 in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. — George Eliot. g. g g. Success lies, not in achieving what you aim at, but in aiming at what you ought to achieve, and pressing forward, sure of achievement here, or if not here, here- after. — R. F. Horton. «§> g g, To hold one's work — whether it be that of sell- ing goods behind a counter, or building a house, or work in the professions, the arts, or the industries, to hold it as that which forms one's medium of expression, one's part in the general community, by means of which he con- veys with his work, his good-will, his generous sympathy, — the entire sup- port, indeed, of that magnetic love which radiates from him who has the love of God and the love of man in his heart, — to give thus always of one's best is the true success in life. The lingering idea that there is caste in work is an unworthy one. The 78 Success only caste is in character. — Lilian Whiting. £ £ £ Great men are the true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary, they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they OUght tO be. — Amiel's Journal. £ ^ £ Health, happiness, and good rcpute,nay, even, Attainment in the long run, prosperity and wealth are promised to, are given to, the man who lives uprightly and keeps his garments clean and his hands busy. — Charles Wagner. ^ ^ ^, SuCCeSS consists in close appliance to the laws of the world and, since those laws are intellectual and moral, an intellectual and moral obedience. Political Econo- my is a book wherein to read the life of man, and the ascendency of laws over all private and hostile influences. — Emerson. £ £ £ The talent of success is nothing more than doing Attainment 79 what you can do well ; and doing well whatever you do, without a thought of fame. — Longfellow. ^ £ £ Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, other things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable equalities. — Henry Ward Beecher. ^. ^> ^ Success treads on the heels of every right effort ; and though it is possible to overestimate success to the extent of almost defying it, as is sometimes done, still in any worthy pursuit it is meritorious.— Samuel Smiles. £ £ £ Every task that we master adds to our re- serve fund of strength and spiritual force. Every task that masters us de- pletes our spiritual force and decreases our strength of character. —Dorothy Quigley. ^ & &> All successful men have agreed in one thing, — they were causationist. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law. Belief in compensa- tion, or, that nothing is got for 80 Success nothing, — characterizes all valuable minds. — Emerson, ^.^b^. It is a great presumption to ascribe our success to our own management, and not to esteem ourselves upon any blessing, rather as it is the bounty of heaven, than the acqui- sition of our own prudence. — Addison, ^t^^. The secret of many a man's success in the world resides in his in- sight into the moods of men, and his tact in dealing with them.— Timothy Titcomb. & £ «£ Success is the child of Audac- ity. —Disraeli. ^>^>^. To succeed you must not dissipate your precious force in unwise sympathy. Do not spill your soul in running hither and yon grieving over the misfortunes, the mistakes, and the vices of others. The one person whom it is most necessary in this world tO reform is yourself.— Dorothy Quigley. ^^k^fe It is well to have visions of a better life than that of every day, but it is the life of every day from Attainment Si which elements of a better life must come.— Maeterlinck. «£ £ £ Work as they work, who are ambitious. Respect life, as they respect it who desire it. Be happy, as they are happy who live for happiness alone. —Hindu Maxim. ^*^>^> The secret of success still lies in the same old word, " drudgery." For drudgery is the doing of one thing, one thing, one thing, long after it ceases to be amusing ; and it is this " one thing I do " that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possi- bilities to powers. That whole long string of habits, — attention, method, patience, self-control, and the others, — can be summed up in the word " con- centration." " One thing I do," said Paul ; and, apart from what his one thing was, in that phrase he gave the watchword of salvation. — w. C. Gannett. ^-^•^ The essentials of success, on the inner side, are a high ideal, self- 82 Success knowledge, self-control, and self-culti- vation ; and, on the outer, self-realization, tempered by ethical recognition of Society. — Horatio W. Dresser. £ ^> ^> The clinching of good purposes with right actions is what makes the man. This higher heredity does not come from one's father or mother, but is the work of the man on himself. — David Starr Jordan. «£ £ & The only road to advancement is to do your work so well that you are always ahead of the demands of your position. Our employers do not decide whether we shall stay where we are or go on and up ; we decide that matter ourselves. Success or failure are not chosen for us ; we choose them for our- selves. — Hamilton Wright Mabie. ^> £, «jt The successful man takes plenty of time for thought. He carefully looks the ground over, searches for weak and strong points, then adjusts himself to the needed conditions. — Dresser. Attainment 83 You will succeed best when you put the restless, anxious side of affairs out of mind, and allow the restful side to live in your thoughts.— Margaret Stowc. ^•^-^ Every success in life comes from sympathy and co-operation and love.— -Benjamin Ide Wheeler. ^> £, £ There is but one good fortune to the earnest man. This is opportunity ; and sooner or later, opportunity will come to him who Can make USe of it. — David Starr Jordan. Self-Confidence Self - trust is the r J first secret of success, the belief that, if you are here, the authorities of the universe put you here, and for cause, or with some task strictly appointed you in your constitu- tion, and so long as you work at that you are well and successful. — Emerson. $.^$. Properly directed effort gene- rates energy. Energy is life, life is the manifestation of the spirit. Give your spirit room to express itself. Use the 84 Success forces within you intelligently, fear- lessly, joyously, triumphantly, persistent- ly, and you will SUCCeed. —Dorothy Quigley. ft ft ft Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures. In the assurance of strength there is strength, and they are weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves, or their powers. — Boric. J§> £ £ To confide in one's self, and be something of worth and value. — Michael Angclo. £ £ £ Success or failure in any line is dependent upon the faith of the thinker in his power to accomplish the work before him. The positive character that determines to attain the thing desired must approach more nearly the goal than the vacillat- ing, hesitating thinker who fears failure.— Dorothy Quigley. £ ^> «f> Be what Nature intended you for and you will SUCCeed. — Sydney Smith. £, «£ £ The proper kind of self-trust begets self- assertion, and self-assertion is one of Self-Confidence 85 the most potent elements of success. That is the reason so many of the so- called bad, selfish, disagreeable people in life succeed. They assert them- selves.— Dorothy Quigley. ^» ^> «£ New, daring, and inspiring ideas are engen- dered only in a clear head over a glow- ing heart. — F. Jacobs. <§* £ £ Who ever wishes to accomplish anything in any career of life, must first of all be faith- ful tO his OWn nature. — Alma Tadema. ^ ^ ^ Why should we call ourselves men, unless it be to succeed in every- thing, everywhere ? Say of nothing, " This is beneath me," nor feel that any- thing is beyond your powers. Nothing is impossible to the man who can will. — Mirabeau. «£ ^ ^> Try thyself un- weariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, facul- ties and outward circumstances being both duly considered; and then do it—]* Stuart Mill, ^^^b He is great who 86 Success is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others. — Emerson. Experience shows ,1 , . , Determination that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The win- ner is he who gives himself to his work, body and Soul. .— Charles Buxton. £ £ £ To wish is of slight moment; thou oughtest to desire with earnestness to be successful. — Ovid. £ £, £ It is true there is much to be done, and perhaps you are weak-handed; but stick to it steadily and you will see great effects, for "constant dropping wears away stones; and by diligence and patience the mouse ate in two the cable ; and little Strokes fell great Oaks." — Benjamin Franklin. & ^ ^ Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose. — Emerson. £ £ £ The more powerful the obstacles, the more glory we have in overcoming it. — Moliere. £, £ ^ A strenuous soul hates cheap SUCCeSSeS. — Emerson. <£^^ Determination 87 In every walk in life, strength comes from effort. It is the habit of self- denial which gives the advantage to men we call self-made. He is often very poorly put together. His education is incomplete ; his manners may be un- couth. His prejudices are often strong. He may worship himself and his own oddities. But if he is successful in any way in life, he has learned to resist. He has learned the value of money, and he has learned how to refuse to spend it. He has learned the value of time, and how to convert it into money, and he has learned to resist all tempta- tions to throw either money or time away. He has learned to say NO. To say NO at the right time, and then to stand by it, is the first element of suc- cess. — David Starr Jordan. £ £ £ Success in life is a matter not so much of talent or opportunity as of concentration and perseverance. — Charles w. Wendte. ?ss 88 Succes, Attend carefully to the details of your business. Be prompt in all things. Consider well, then decide positively. Dare to do right ; fear to do wrong. Endure trials patiently. Fight life's battles bravely, manfully. Go not into the society of the vicious. Hold integrity sacred. Injure not another's reputation or busi- ness. Join hands only with the virtuous. Keep your mind from evil thoughts. Lie not for any consideration. Make few acquaintances. Never try to appear what you are not. Observe good manners. Pay your debts promptly. Question not the veracity of a friend. Respect the counsel of your parents. Sacrifice money rather than principle. Touch not, taste not, handle not in- toxicating drinks. Use your leisure time for improvement. 'Xtend to every one a kindly salutation. Yield not to discouragement. Zealously labor for the right, and suc- cess is certain. - — Baron Rothschild's Maxims. L.OFC. I judge it better, indeed, To seek in life, as now I know I sought, Some fair, impossible love, which slays our life; Some fair Ideal, raised too high for man; And failing, to grow mad, and cease to be, Than to decline, as they do who have found Broad-paunch ed content, and weal, and happiness ; And so an end. For one day, as I know, The high aim unfulfilled fulfils it- self; The deep, unsatisfied thirst is sat- Lewis Morris. HERE ENDETH THE MOSAIC ESSAYS OF FRIENDSHIP, LOVE, HAPPINESS, NATURE, & SUCCESS. COMPOSED BY PAUL ELDER, WITH DECORA- TIONS FOR TITLE PAGE tf COVER BY ROBERT WILSON HYDE. PUB- LISHED BY PAUL ELDER ^ COMPANY SAN FRANCISCO tf NEW YORK, & PRINTED FOR THEM BY THE TOMOYE PRESS, OCTOBER, MCMVI. NOV 9 1906 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS