We have not to construct human nature afresh, but to take it as we find it, and make the best of it.

When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why.

We have not to construct human nature afresh, but to take it as we find it, and make the best of it.

Nothing but a speck we seem In the waste of waters round, Floating, floating like a dream, Outward bound.

our right or wrong use of money is the utmost test of character, as well as the root of happiness or misery, throughout our whole lives.

One cannot make oneself, but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else. It is well.

Not perhaps until later life, until the follies, passions, and selfishness of youth have died out, do we . . . recognize the the inestimable blessing, the responsibility awful as sweet, of possessing or of being a friend.