We must choose. Be a child of the past with all its crudities and imperfections, its failures and defeats, or a child of the future, the future of symmetry and ultimate success.

In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.

Wanted: More Praise I cannot help believing that the world will be a better and a happier place when people are praised more and blamed less; when we utter in their hearing the good we think and also gently intimate the criticisms we hope may be of service. For the world grows smaller every day. It will be but a family circle after a while.

The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

Please do not take counsel of women who are so prejudiced that, as I once heard said, they would not allow a male grasshopper to chirp on their lawn; but out of your own great heart, refuse to set an example to such folly.

God is action - let us be like God.