THE true, plain path to success is well-doing,—not brilliant doing, but well-doing,—doing the work of life with a willing mind, a loving heart, with both hands, earnestly,—with diligence in getting good, being good, doing good. In this world all the grand prizes go to a few brilliant people. . . . But what a blessing it is to us, the dim million, to know that God recognizes patient merit, and that the grandest prizes of all are not kept for the brilliant, but for the faithful. Let us be content with our place and work, however coarse and common. . . . Let us feed our souls with high beliefs and hopes; let us talk to ourselves all the day long about glory, honor, immortality, eternal life; so shall our path of life, however lonely, be a royal pathway, brighter and brighter to a perfect day.—Selected.