It is better to be worn out with work in a thronged community than to perish of inaction in a stagnant solitude.--Mrs. Gaskell.
The advantage of leisure is mainly that we have the power of choosing our own work; not certainly that it confers any privilege of idleness.--Lord Avebury.
Suffering becomes beautiful, when any one bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility, but through greatness of mind.--Aristotle.
Character is a perfectly educated will.--Novalis.
One of the most massive and enduring gratifications is the feeling of personal worth, ever afresh, brought into consciousness by effectual action; and an idle life is balked of its hopes partly because it lacks this.--Herbert Spencer.
Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out.--Tillotson.
He that is choice of his time will be choice of his company and choice of his actions.--Jeremy Taylor.
Our character is our will; for what we will we are.--Archbishop Manning.
He overcomes a stout enemy that overcomes his own anger.--Chilo.
Good company and good conversation are the sinews of virtue. --Stephen Allen.
If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency. Nothing is denied to well directed labor; nothing is to be obtained without it. --Joshua Reynolds.
If you are doing any real good you cannot escape the reward of your service.--Patrick Flynn.
Simplicity and plainness are the soul of elegance.--Dickens.
Happiness is one of the virtues which the people of all nationalities and every pursuit appreciate.--Joe Mitchell Chapple.
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I am sure that every girl wishes to become accomplished, and I am quite as certain that every girl can become so if she will.
My dictionary defines an accomplishment as an "acquirement or attainment that tends to perfect or equip in character, manners, or person."
Surely every girl can do something, or has acquired some special line of knowledge, that is covered by this broad definition.
It means that every girl who can sweep a room; read French or German or English as it should be read; bake a loaf of bread; play tennis; darn a stocking; play the violin or pianoforte; give the names of flowers and birds and butterflies; write a neat, well-composed letter, either in longhand or shorthand; draw or paint pictures; make a bed or do one or more of a thousand and one other things is accomplished. The more things she can do and the greater the number of subjects on which she is informed, the more highly is she accomplished.