Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.

Endurance must conquer, where force could not reach.

What a man is lies as certainly upon his countenance as in his heart, though none of his acquaintances may be able to read it. The very intercourse with him may have rendered it more difficult.

A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.

Man's rank is his power to uplift.

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.

God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.