MEMORY GEMS. Above all things reverence yourself.--Pythagoras No one can disgrace us but ourselves.--J. G. Holland Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures.--Bovee Self-r...
MEMORY GEMS. The best hearts are always the bravest.--Sterne In noble souls, valor does not wait for years.--Corneille Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness.--Earl...
MEMORY GEMS. One to-day is worth two to-morrows.--Franklin Whilst we are considering when we are to begin, it is often too late to act.--Quintilian By the street of by and by one a...
MEMORY GEMS. The path of duty is the way to glory.--Tennyson A sense of duty pursues us ever and everywhere.--Webster The consciousness of duty performed "gives us music at midnigh...
MEMORY GEMS. Conscientiousness is the underlying granite of life.--Sir Walter Raleigh When love of praise takes the place of praiseworthiness, the defect is fatal.--S. Baring-Gould...
MEMORY GEMS. Truth needs no color, beauty no pencil.--Shakespeare An honest man's the noblest work of God.--Pope The basis of high thinking is perfect honesty.--Strong Nature has w...
MEMORY GEMS. Conduct is three fourths of life.--Matthew Arnold There is no policy like politeness.--Magoon Life is not so short but there is time enough for courtesy.--Emerson Men,...
MEMORY GEMS. Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty.--C. Simmons Without method, little can be done to any good purpose.--Macaulay A place for everything, and everything in its pl...
MEMORY GEMS. Success grows out of struggles to overcome difficulties.--Smiles He who follows two hares is sure to catch neither.--Franklin The important thing in life is to have a...
MEMORY GEMS. Self-mastery is the essence of heroism.--Emerson He who reigns within himself is more than a king.--Milton I have only one counsel for you--Be master!--Napoleon Self-c...
MEMORY GEMS. Gratitude is the music of the heart.--Robert South. The best way of recognizing a benefit is never to forget it. --J. J. Barthelmey The affection and the reason are bo...
MEMORY GEMS. Hope without an object cannot live.--Coleridge Have an aim in life, or your energies will all be wasted. --M. C. Peters Every one should take the helm of his own life,...
MEMORY GEMS. Reverence is the crown of moral manhood.--C. Kingsley No man of sound nature ever makes a mock of reverence.--T. T. Munger True reverence is homage tempered by love.--...
MEMORY GEMS. Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to Heaven. --Shakespeare Be sure, my son, and remember that the best men always make themselves. --Patrick Henry...
MEMORY GEMS. Genius is nothing but labor and diligence.--Hogarth. Know something of everything and everything of something. --Lord Brougham The difference between one boy and anoth...
MEMORY GEMS. Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.--Bulwer Enthusiasm is the fundamental quality of strong souls.--Carlyle The only conclusive evidence of a man's sincerity is th...
MEMORY GEMS. Truth lies at the bottom of the well.--Old Proverb Candor looks with equal fairness at both sides of a subject. --Noah Webster Daylight and truth meet us with clear da...
MEMORY GEMS. Love makes obedience easy.--T. Watson The education of the will is the object of our existence.--Emerson To learn obeying is the fundamental art of governing.--Carlyle...
MEMORY GEMS. A great nation is made only by worthy citizens.--Charles Dudley Warner Nothing is politically right that is morally wrong.--O'Connor The noblest principle in education...
MEMORY GEMS. Rum will brutalize the manliest man in Christendom.-J. B. Gough Rum excites all that is bad, vicious, and criminal in man.-J. S. White There may be some wit in a barre...
MEMORY GEMS. Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health.--Addison Give us, oh give us, the man who sings at his work.--Carlyle Age without cheerfulness is like a Lapland winter wi...
MEMORY GEMS. Sentiment is nothing but thought blended with feeling.--J. F. Clarke Sentiment takes part in the shaping of all destinies.--R. Southey A little child is the sweetest a...
MEMORY GEMS. The noblest motive is the public good.--Virgil The one best omen is to fight for fatherland.--Homer Patriotism is a principle fraught with high impulses and noble thou...
MEMORY GEMS. We get out of Nature what we carry to her.--Katherine Hagar Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools. --Lavater The non-observant man goes...
MEMORY GEMS. Self-denial is the essence of heroism.--Emerson True self-denial involves personal sacrifice for the good of others. --Dr. Momerie To give up interest for duty is the...
MEMORY GEMS. Faithfulness is the soul of goodness.--J. S. White That which we love most in men and women is faithfulness.--S. Brooke It is the fidelity in the daily drill which tur...
MEMORY GEMS. Keep out of the crowd, if you have to get above it.--M. C Peters The freedom of the mind is the highest form of independence.--G. B. Fisk A country cannot subsist with...
MEMORY GEMS. Every man stamps his value on himself.--Schiller No capital earns such interest as personal culture.--President Eliot The end and aim of all education is the developme...
MEMORY GEMS. From the lowest depth there is a path to the highest height.--Carlyle. A man seldom loses the respect of others until he has lost his own. --F. W. Robertson There are...
MEMORY GEMS. Knowledge is the eye of the soul.--T. Watson Common sense is knowledge of common things.--M. C. Peters It is noble to seek truth, and it is beautiful to find it. --Syd...