Dear Friends all, A thousand Christmas pleasures and blessings to you -- good resolutions and bright hopes for the New Year! Amen. People who can't be witty exert themselves to be pious or affectionate.

And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness.

The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.