False Friends: May we never have friends who, like shadows, keep close to
us in the sunshine only to desert us in a cloudy day or in the night.

A Competence: May we never want bread to make a toast or a good cook to
prepare it.

The Man we Love: He who thinks most good and speaks least ill of his
neighbors.

Human Nature as the Best Study: He who is learned in books alone may know
how some things ought to be, but he who reads men learns how things are.

Metaphysics the Noblest of the Sciences: "When a mon wha' kens naething
aboot ony subject, takes a subject that nae mon kens onything aboot and
explains it to anither mon still more ignorant--that's Metaphysics."

The Deeds of Men: The best interpreters of their motives.

Love and Affection: The necessary basis for a happy life.

Charity: A mantle of heavenly weaving used to cover the faults of our
neighbors.

Charitable Allowances: May our eyes be no keener when we look upon the
faults of others than when we survey our own.

Cheerful Courage: "May this be our maxim whene'er we are twirled, A fig for
the cares of this whirl-a-gig world."