Sermonets

SERMONETS When his satanic majesty hasn't anything else to do, he teaches a woman to smoke cigarettes. Cater to the brute in you, and you will keep calling out more brute; cater to the divine, and you will kill the brute.

There are some characters who carry their wealth with them, who are rich without money. They do not need palatial homes or a large bank account. They do not need to buy admission to society,— everybody loves them. They are welcome everywhere because they have that which money can — not buy a genial, helpful, sunny, cheerful disposition. Of course, everybody wants them, because it is a joy to be with them. Everybody loves the sunshine and hates the shadows and the gloom. There is no bank account that can balance a sweet, gracious personality; no material wealth can match a sunny heart, an ability to radiate helpfulness and sweetness. But such graces and charms never live with selfishness or self-seeking. It is the people who have something to give, not who are trying to get something, that are wanted everywhere. Youth's Companion.

The Best Incentive is the Love of the Work. —"Real literature has never been paid for. It has never asked the gold nor the plaudits of the multitude. Job and Hamlet and Faust and Lear were never written to fill the pages of a Sunday newspaper. John Milton and John Bunyan were not publishers' hacks. "No man was hired to find out that the world was round, ***** that living organisms fill the fading leaf, or that valleys are worn down by water, or that the stars are suns. No man was ever paid to burn at the stake or die on the cross that other men might be free to live. The same, strong, heroic souls of all ages were the men who in the natural- order of things, have lived above all considerations of pay or glory. They have not served as slaves taking reward, but as gods who would take no reward. Men could not reward Shakespeare or Darwin, or Newton, or Helmholtz for their services any more than we could pay the Lord for the use of his sunshine." David Starr Jordan.

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