For when is the child the ideal child in our eyes and to our hearts? Is it not when with gentle hand he takes his father by the beard, and turns that father's face up to his brothers and sisters to kiss? when even the lovely selfishness of love-seeking has vanished, and the heart is absorbed in loving?

Not only then has each man his individual relation to God, but each man has his peculiar relation to God.

Remember, then, that whoever does not mean good is always in danger of harm. But I try to give everybody fair play, and those that are in the wrong are in far more need of it always than those who are in the right: they can afford to do without it.

Where did you get your eyes so blue? Out of the sky as I came through.

It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

I don't know how to thank you.' Then I will tell you. There is only one way I care for. Do better, and grow better, and be better.

I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God's thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest and most precious thing in all thinking.