When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.

Some folks goes right under when trouble comes, but I carry mine fur an' easy.

I can think of no habit, kept up through the years, that binds a married couple more than that of reading good books together. Domestic problems and personal problems are for the time forgotten, and an intellectual intimacy is established that can be maintained in few other ways.

In this noisy, restless, bewildering age, there is a great need for quietness of spirit. Even in our communion with God we are so busy presenting our problems, asking for help, seeking relief that we leave no moments of silence to listen for God's answers. By practice we can learn to submerge our spirits beneath the turbulent surface waves of life and reach that depth of our being where all is still, where no storms can reach us. Here only can we forget the material world and its demands on us.

The hardest grief is often that which leaves no trace.

It is a terrifying as well as hopeful truth that we tend to bring into being in form whatever we fashion in thought.

What can people not accomplish if they will but master the secret of steadfast perseverance.