“ If a man dies, does lie live again? Yes, for a man lives forever in the deeds and thoughts of his life expression. And every man who shall pass his thought through every age that has been, shall be whitened and renewed, to go on his way the better for every creative thought left behind.
It's the pride in a man's soul that leads him on!
Pride creates first—then contributes in natural turn.
Until we become too proud to stoop to mean ways and unworthy ends, we shall have tasted of but a sample of what life holds in substance and bigness.—George Matthew Adams. ”

“ I thought you were a farmer."
GREEN—"You made the same mistake I did."—Judge.
There are people who fail because they are afraid to make a beginning. Who are too honest to steal, but will borrow and never pay back. Who go to bed tired because they spend the day in looking for an easy place. Who can play a tune on one string, but it never makes anybody want to dance. Who would like to reform the world, but have a front gate that won't stay shut. Who cannot tell what they think about anything until they see what the papers have to say about it. ”

“ Action and reaction must be balanced: seriousness and lightness. "Men who work prodigously must play with equal energy," says one commentator. "Humor is the gift of the deeply serious man," remarks another. "There have been very few solemn men, but their solemnity was evidence, not of their gifts, but of their defects; as a rule greatness is accompanied by the overflow of the fountain of life in play." "The richly furnished mind overflows with vitality and deals with ideas and life freely, daringly, often audaciously." ”

“ SUNDAY-SCHOOL TEACHER—"Now, Jimmy, I want you to memorize today's motto, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"
JIMMY—"Yes'm, but I know it now. My father says he has always used that as his motto in his business."
TEACHER—"Oh, how noble of him! And what is his business?"
JIMMY—"He's a prize-fighter, ma'am."—Life.
Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms.—Beveridge.
In this world, it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.—Beecher. ”

“ The boarder watched him a little while and then said: "What on earth are you howling for? You don't have to eat it!"
In the soft firelight even the boarding-house sitting-room looked cozy and attractive. The warmth and comfort thawed the heart of the "star" boarder. He turned to the landlady and murmured. "Will you be my wife?"
"Let me see," replied the landlady, "you have been here four years. You have never once grumbled at the food or failed to pay my bill promptly and without question. No, sir, I'm sorry. You're too good a boarder to be put on the free list!" ”

“ To think well of your self and to proclaim this fact to the world—not in loud words, but in great deeds.
To live in the faith that the world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is in you.
The world knows but little of failures, and cares less. The world only watches the successes. ”

“ The first four people he met didn't remember him and the next three didn't know he had been away.
"That antagonist of yours says he is going to leave footprints in the sands of time."
"He won't," replied Senator Sorghum. "His mind is in the clouds. He is an intellectual aviator. When he comes down he will leave a dent, not a footprint."
Nor fame I slight, nor for her favors call:
She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all.
—Pope.
For what is fame, but the benignant strength of one, transformed to joy of many?—George Eliot. ”

“ Mayor, do you see any objection to my being put in poor Tom Smith's place?'
"'Why, no,' said I. 'Why, no, I see no objection, if the undertaker doesn't.'"
No matter how hard a man runs for office he is perfectly satisfied to win in a walk.
There is seldom a collision between the office seeking the man and the man seeking the office.
"There goes a fellow who chased around for years trying to land a political job." ”

“ WILLIE—"It's this way, dad. School is going to be a tough place for the next few years. We'll have a new map of Europe to study, and if we fall down on it the teacher is likely to give us the Constitution of the League of Nations to learn by heart." ”

“ In traveling along a road in a motor car, there will be several cars ahead of you going your way, and there will be several cars coming toward you. Also ahead of you, going your way, there may be a hay wagon or a farmer in a buggy. As you speed along, you look ahead and declare to yourself that there is no logical way in which you can get through the spaces thus created. Yet the vehicles always form themselves into the right combination, and you pass through easily. This is the way with life. There are always obstacles that you do not see how you can pass without a smash-up. ”

“ The Divine Gift of Humor
The subject of humor has an attraction peculiarly its own, because it deals with a mystery which yet is pleasantly interwoven with the daily life of each one of us. We often say of one of our neighbors that he has no sense of humour. But he often laughs; he never spends a day without at least trying to laugh, tho it remains but an attempt, an effort, an aspiration after something which he seems to have lost but wishes to recover. ”

“ When I consider what some books have done for the world, and what they are doing, how they keep up our hope, awaken new courage and faith, soothe pain, give an ideal life to those whose hours are cold and hard, bind together distant ages and foreign lands, create new worlds of beauty, bring down Truth from heaven ”

“ I prefer to believe that, like the sense of beauty, the love of music, the thrill of admiration for uncalculating heroism, we have here a wondrous aid to us in our life's pilgrimage, but that if we trace it to a sense of our self-interest, we not only vulgarize it, but we turn it into a caricature. ”

“ A well-to-do Scottish woman one day said to her gardener:
"Man Tammas, I wonder you don't get married. You've a nice house, and all you want to complete it is a wife. You know the first gardener that ever lived had a wife."
"Quite right, missus, quite right," said Thomas, "but he didna keep his job long after he gat the wife." ”

“ In fact, the biggest problem in business and society today is the human problem, the problem of making people like you and making people feel kindly towards each other.
And nothing oils the wheels of human relationship so nicely as humor. ”

“ Humor is as necessary to our mental and spiritual life as are vitamins to our physical well-being. Ruskin has called our attention to the tendency of rivers to lean a little to one side, to have "One shingly shore upon which they can be shallow and foolish and childlike, and another steep shore under which they can pause and purify themselves and get their strength of waves fully together for due occasions," and has likened them to great men who must have one side of their life for work and another for play. ”

“ When a plumber makes a mistake, he charges time for it.
When a lawyer makes a mistake, it's just what he wanted.
When a carpenter makes a mistake, it's just what he expected, because the chances are ten to one he never learned his business. ”

“ An Irishman was suddenly struck by a golf-ball.
"Are you hurt?" asked the player. "Why didn't you get out of the way?"
"An' why should I get out of the way?" asked Pat. "I didn't know there was any assassins round here."
"But I called 'fore,'" said the player, "and when I say 'fore,' that is a sign for you to get out of the way."
"Oh, it is, is it?" said Pat. "Well, thin, whin I say 'foive,' it is a sign that you are going to get hit on the nose. 'Foive.'"
"What do you think is the most difficult thing for a beginner to learn about golf?" ”

“ When the doctor gets drunk it's a case of being overcome by the heat and if he dies it's from heart trouble; when an editor gets drunk it's a case of too much booze and if he dies it's the jim-jams. Any college can make a doctor; an editor has to be born."
Wanted, an editor, who can read, write and argue politics, and at the same time be religious, funny, scientific and historical at will, write to please everybody, know everything, without asking or being told, always having something good to say of everything and everybody else, live on wind and make more money than enemies. ”

“ And get the other fellow's job instead.
I see no other way to do—unless
We might do this: Forget a little while
The easy jobs that other men possess,
Get busy with your own, and with a smile.
For after all, they're not so different:
Each has its time of laughter and of sob,
But each the joy of service. Be content—
Your job's as good as any fellow's job.
MISTRESS (to butler) —"Why is it, John, every time I come home I find you sleeping?"
"Well, ma'am, it's this way: I don't like to be a-doing nothing."
LAZY MIKE—"I have a new position with the railroad company." ”

“ For every woman who makes a fool out of a man there is another woman who makes a man out of a fool.
The ideal man is as numerous as there are women to describe him.
If a woman is an hour late in returning home, and her husband is worried, she is flattered. If a man is three hours late he is angry if anyone is worried.
He was fond of playing jokes on his wife, and this time he thought he had a winner.
"My dear," he said, as they sat at supper, "I just heard such a sad story of a young girl today. ”

“ Every grocer in the street
If we didn't—man and woman,
Every hungry, helpless human—
Have to eat, eat, eat, eat, eat—
We'd save money if we didn't have to eat.
All our worry would be over
If we didn't have to eat.
Would the butcher, baker, grocer
Get our hard-earned dollars? No, Sir! ”

“ CRABSHAW—"Why, I thought it was a secret society."
It is said that an ancient Chinese sage who lived in the second century was offered a bribe. His silence being accepted as hesitation, he was assured that he was perfectly safe, as no one knew it. He replied:
"Heaven knows, it. Earth knows it. You know it. I know it. How can you say that no one knows it?"
SELF-MADE MEN
"Yes, sir," said the trust magnate, proudly, "I am the architect of my own fortune." ”

“ Jones again," said the minister. "Mr Jones has gone to heaven."
"Now, boys," said the teacher in the juvenile Sunday-school class, "our lesson today teaches us that if we are good while here on earth, when we die we will go to a place of everlasting bliss. But suppose we are bad, then what will become of us?" ”

“ HE—"But, my dear, what is higher than food?"—Life.
A certain judge, after passing sentence, always gave advice to prisoners. Having before him a man found guilty of stealing, he started thus:
"It you want to succeed in this world you must keep straight. Now, do you understand?"
"Well, not quite," said the prisoner; "but if your lordship will tell me how a man is to keep straight when he is trying to make boths ends meet, I might."
And another trouble with the country is that too many are trying to satisfy a bricklayer's appetite on a school-teacher's salary. ”

“ As any reporter will tell you, the only place in a newspaper office where real toil is done is the city room. Imagine our pleasure when we overheard one of the office boys saying: "When I first came here I thought it was called the 'sitting room.' I said something about the sitting room one day to the city editor, and I thought he was going to throw me down the elevator shaft." ”

“ To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticise others.
To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble. ”

“ YOUNG WOMAN (to be neighbor at dinner) —"Guess whom I met today, doctor?"
DOCTOR—"I'm afraid I'm not a good guesser."
"You're too modest. Aren't you at the top of your profession?"—Life.
DOCTOR—"My dear sir, it's a good thing you came to me when you did."
"Why, Doc? Are you broke?"—Life.
"It's a little hard for young doctors to get a start." ”

“ If sorrow overwhelms you and loved ones seem not true—work. If health is threatened—work. When faith falters and reason fails—just work. When dreams are shattered and hope seems dead—work. Work as if your life were in peril. ”

“ BETTING
"Charley, dear," said young Mrs. Torkins, "I am glad to see you taking as much interest in politics as you formerly took in racing."
"It is the duty of every man and woman to take an interest in politics."
"Do you wish me to vote for the same candidate that you do?"
"Why shouldn't you?"
"I thought it might be a good idea for me to vote for the other one. It would be a satisfaction to feel that one or the other of us has at last succeeded in picking a winner."
A Scottish gentleman on a trip to New Orleans went to see his first horse-race. ”