What can money do to console a man with a headache?

Never be discouraged because good things get on so slowly here; and never fail daily to do that good which lies next to your hand.

I say again, if I cannot draw a horse, I will not write THIS IS A HORSE under what I foolishly meant for one.

God Himself - His thoughts, His will, His love, His judgments are men's home. To think His thoughts, to choose His will, to judge His judgments, and thus to know that He is in us, with us, is to be at home.

What honest boy would pride himself on not picking pockets ? A thief who was trying to reform would. To be conceited of doing one's duty is then a sign of how little one does it, and how little one sees what a contemptible thing it is not to do it. Could any but a low creature be conceited of not being contemptible? Until our duty becomes to us common as breathing, we are poor creatures.

But when we are following the light, even its extinction is a guide.

You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave.