Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.

Christ illustrates the purport of life as He descends from His transfiguration to toil, and goes forward to exchange that robe of heavenly brightness for the crown of thorns.

Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils.

Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise.

The gospel has but a forced alliance with war. Its doctrine of human brotherhood would ring strangely between the opposed ranks. The bellowing speech of cartoon and the baptism of blood mock its liturgies and sacraments. Its gentle beatitudes would hardly serve as mottoes for defiant banners, nor its list of graces as names for ships-of-the-line.

Swift calls discretion low prudence; it is high prudence, and one of the most important elements entering into either social or political life.