Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

How little our libraries cost us as compared with our liquor cellars.

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

It always seems to be raining harder than it really is when you look at the weather through the window.

We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.

Savages have often been likened to children, and the comparison is not only correct but also highly instructive. Many naturalists consider that the early condition of the individual indicates that of the race,-that the best test of the affinities of a species are the stages through which it passes. So also it is in the case of man; the life of each individual is an epitome of the history of the race, and the gradual development of the child illustrates that of the species.