AFFECTION.
MEMORY GEMS. Gratitude is the music of the heart.--Robert South. The best way of recognizing a benefit is never to forget it. --J. J. Barthelmey The affection and the reason are both necessary factors in morality. ... AMBITION.
MEMORY GEMS. Hope without an object cannot live.--Coleridge Have an aim in life, or your energies will all be wasted. --M. C. Peters Every one should take the helm of his own life, and steer instead of ... CANDOR.
MEMORY GEMS. Truth lies at the bottom of the well.--Old Proverb Candor looks with equal fairness at both sides of a subject. --Noah Webster Daylight and truth meet us with clear dawn.--Milton Perfect openness is the onl... CHEERFULNESS.
MEMORY GEMS. Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health.--Addison Give us, oh give us, the man who sings at his work.--Carlyle Age without cheerfulness is like a Lapland winter without the sun. ... CONCENTRATION.
MEMORY GEMS. Success grows out of struggles to overcome difficulties.--Smiles He who follows two hares is sure to catch neither.--Franklin The important thing in life is to have a great aim and the determination to attain it.--Goethe ... CONSCIENTIOUSNESS.
MEMORY GEMS. Conscientiousness is the underlying granite of life.--Sir Walter Raleigh When love of praise takes the place of praiseworthiness, the defect is fatal.--S. Baring-Gould When a man is dead to the sense of right, he is lost fo... COURAGE.
MEMORY GEMS. The best hearts are always the bravest.--Sterne In noble souls, valor does not wait for years.--Corneille Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness.--Earl Stanhope A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience.... COURTESY.
MEMORY GEMS. Conduct is three fourths of life.--Matthew Arnold There is no policy like politeness.--Magoon Life is not so short but there is time enough for courtesy.--Emerson Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.--Richt... DUTY.
MEMORY GEMS. The path of duty is the way to glory.--Tennyson A sense of duty pursues us ever and everywhere.--Webster The consciousness of duty performed "gives us music at midnight." --George ... EDUCATION OF THE NATURAL FACULTIES.
MEMORY GEMS. Every man stamps his value on himself.--Schiller No capital earns such interest as personal culture.--President Eliot The end and aim of all education is the development of character. --F... ENTHUSIASM.
MEMORY GEMS. Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.--Bulwer Enthusiasm is the fundamental quality of strong souls.--Carlyle The only conclusive evidence of a man's sincerity is that he gives himself for a principle.--Phillips Brooks ... FAITHFULNESS.
MEMORY GEMS. Faithfulness is the soul of goodness.--J. S. White That which we love most in men and women is faithfulness.--S. Brooke It is the fidelity in the daily drill which turns the raw recruit into the accomplished soldier.--W. M.... HONESTY.
MEMORY GEMS. Truth needs no color, beauty no pencil.--Shakespeare An honest man's the noblest work of God.--Pope The basis of high thinking is perfect honesty.--Strong Nature has written a letter of credit on some men's faces which is ... HUMILITY.
MEMORY GEMS. Humility is the true cure for many a needless heartache.--A. Montague It is easy to look down on others; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.--Lord Peterborough Humility is a divine veil which covers our good deeds,... INDEPENDENCE.
MEMORY GEMS. Keep out of the crowd, if you have to get above it.--M. C Peters The freedom of the mind is the highest form of independence.--G. B. Fisk A country cannot subsist without liberty, nor liberty without virtue. ...

SELFRESPECT. COURAGE. PROMPTNESS. DUTY. CONSCIENTIOUSNESS. HONESTY. COURTESY. ORDER.

THE FIRST TRANSITION PERIOD. THE CITIZEN AND THE COMMUNITY. THE LOVE OF THE BEAUTIFUL. THE SECOND TEANSITION PERIOD. PEKSEVERANCE. THE CITIZEN AND THE NATION. HUMILITY. THE CITIZEN AND THE HOME.