The Best of Sixteen Things

The Best of Sixteen Things

1. The best law: The Golden Rule.
   
2. The best education: Self-knowledge.
   
3. The best philosophy: A contented mind.
   
4. The best theology: A pure and beneficent life
   
5. The best war: To war against one’s weakness.
   
6. The best medicine: Cheerfulness and temperance.
   
7. The best music: The laughter of an innocent child.
   
8. The best science: Extracting sunshine from a cloudy day.
   
9. The best art: Painting a smile upon the brow of childhood.
   
10. The best journalism: Printing the true and beautiful on memory’s tablet.
    
11. The best telegraphing: Flashing a ray of sunshine into a gloomy heart.
    
12. The best biography: That life which writes charity in the largest letters.
    
13. The best mathematics: That which doubles the joy and divides the most sorrows.
    
14. The best navigation: Steering clear of the lacerating rocks of personal contention.
    
15. The best diplomacy: Effecting a treaty of peace with one’s own conscience.
    
16. The best engineering: Building a bridge of faith over the river of death

-Pennsylvania School Journal, 1936