CONCEIT

The small girl was at the table drawing, and her mother asked her what the picture was to be.

“God,” replied the child simply.

“But you can’t draw God,” protested the mother, “because you have never seen Him; no one has ever seen Him and no one knows what He looks like.”

The small girl licked her pencil and put in another touch.  “They’ll all know when I finish this,” she said.

A young lady once asked Oscar Wilde to give her a list of the one hundred greatest books ever written.

“Impossible, my dear,” replied Oscar; “I have only written five.”

CONDUCT

I Resolve

To keep my health
To do my work
To live
To see to it I grow and gain and give
Never to look behind me for an hour
To wait in weakness and to walk in power;
But always fronting onward to the light
Always and always facing toward the right
Robbed, starved, defeated, fallen wide astray
On with what strength I have
Back to the Way.

—­Charlotte Perkins Stetson.

Envoy

If I am happy, and you,
And there are things to do,
It seems to be the reason
Of this world!

Be Noble! and the nobleness that lies
In other men, sleeping but never dead,
Will rise in majesty to meet thine own;
Then wilt thou see it gleam in many eyes
Then will pure light around thy path be shed
And thou wilt nevermore be sad and lone.

  —­Lowell.

  “To every man there openeth
  A Way and Ways, and a Way,
  And the High soul climbs the High Way
  And the Low soul gropes the Low,
  And in between on the misty flats,
  The rest drift to and fro. 
  But to every man there openeth
  A High Way, and a Low,
  And every man decideth
  The Way his soul shall go.”

  —­John Oxenham.

Half the joy of life is in “letting go” every once in a while, and, if you let go twice every once in awhile, it seems that you have just that much more fun.

When days go wrong, remember they aren’t self-starters.

  I often think that anyone can face
    A crisis or a crushing tragedy
  With calm, exalted courage, but the place
    That needs the greatest strength and energy
  Is daily grind:  to manage just to laugh
    At all the petty hazards of each day—­
  To smile, whilst sifting life’s wheat from its chaff
    And strive to see just good along the way.

  —­Helba Baker.

Promise Yourself

To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.

To talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person you meet.

To make all your friends feel that there is something in them.