To Undermine Self-Respect Is a Sin April 19, 1959
These quoted sentences suggest a subject: “I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of...
Principles… and Personal Peace April 26, 1959
As to people and principles and personal peace, we recall this quotation accredited to a significant source: “I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for...
Health… Happiness… and Physical Fitness May 3, 1959
In a few sentences we should like to share some thoughts on physical fitness, on health and happiness. People may perform well despite physical frailties, despite impairments, despite ill health,...
Home Is Yet Wherever She Is May 10, 1959
In speaking to an occasion a century or so ago, Rufus Choate left some lines on love of country that seem to have as much of meaning for love of home: “There is a love,” he said,...
Of Mothers, of Daughters, of Wives… May 17, 1959
In speaking of mothers, of daughters, of wives, we should like to turn a moment or two to the place of women in the world. Of course in some respects it has so greatly shifted—so greatly that...
Whatever Else She Is… May 24, 1959
In considering ideals and objectives, and the sometimes overemphasis on social considerations, and appeals merely to appearance, Ruskin wrote: “The courage or sincerity [of girls is hardly]...
But Marriage Is Another Matter… May 31, 1959
Humility, Hard Work, and Integrity June 7, 1959
We are mindful these days of young people who are moving into life’s more permanent pursuits. We are mindful also of the many decisions facing those who have completed some part of their...
Every Man…Must Be Trusted to Himself June 14, 1959
Concerning men and physical and spiritual discipline, we cite some sentences form John Locke: “Consent to nothing but what may be suitable to the dignity and excellency of a rational...
Who Teaches Early… June 21, 1959
“Every man must or other be trusted to himself.” Pursuing further this thought and theme, we would share some observations as to fathers and sons, as to parents an children, and the...
He That Will Have His Son Respect Him… June 28, 1959
On the teaching and training of children, John Locke said: “For you must take this for a certain truth, that let them have what instructions you will, and ever so learned lectures…daily...
Letting Habits Harden July 12, 1959
Time passes with exceeding swiftness between the time when we are very young and free and flexible until the time when thoughts and habits and attitudes become somewhat firmly fixed. And since fixed...
Our Need of Others--Always July 26, 1959
“The young, whether they know it or not, live on borrowed property, wrote Sir Richard Livingstone. All of us borrow much from many, from the present and the past, and we are deeply indebted to...
The Basis of Credit and Confidence… August 2, 1959
Sometimes when feelings of self-sufficiency seem to assert themselves, when people feel sure that they no longer have need of others, we need to remind ourselves that no man can be sure he will not...
Happiness--and the Paradox of Comparison August 9, 1959
A sentence written some two or more centuries ago is significant in the search for the happiness that all of us so much seek. “If one only wished to be happy,” it says, “this could...
The Ignorance That Shuts Out Understanding August 16, 1959
One of the greatest barriers to happiness is ignorance. And this we say despite the old saying that ignorance is bliss. If it is, it is a bliss founded on false foundations. Happiness should be,...
On Knowing the Truth August 23, 1959
Some centuries ago Nicholas Ling said, “Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.” And John Lock later added, “A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths which his...
The Chasms That Keep Us From Understanding August 30, 1959
Shakespeare, in Love‘s Labour‘s Lost, had one of his characters make this remark: “Who understandeth thee not, loves thee not.” We so much need an understanding of each...
The Will to Work… and Enjoy It September 6, 1959
These words of dedication come from a grateful author: “To my own mother and father and to all parents like them, who have dedicated their lives to providing their children with the...
Idleness and Inactivity September 13, 1959
There comes a time in the lives of those who live longer, when for one reason or another, they must alter their activities. Things change, and people change, and personnel and procedures change....