Real good-breeding is independent of the forms and refinements of what has assumed to itself the name of society.

I saw thee ne'er before; I see thee never more; But love, and help, and pain, beautiful one, Have made thee mine, till all my years are done.

They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.

He may delay because it would not be safe to give us at once what we ask: we are not ready for it. To give ere we could truly receive, would be to destroy the very heart and hope of prayer, to cease to be our Father. The delay itself may work to bring us nearer to our help, to increase the desire, perfect the prayer, and ripen the receptive condition.

Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.

Past tears are present strength.

But words are vain; reject them all— They utter but a feeble part: Hear thou the depths from which they call, The voiceless longing of my heart.