"Do not fear! Heaven is as near," He said, "by water as by land!"

Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood.

Give what you have. To some one, it may be better than you dare to think.

Stars of earth, these golden flowers; emblems of our own great resurrection; emblems of the bright and better land.

The greatest grace of a gift, perhaps, is that it anticipates and admits of no return.

Ah, how wonderful is the advent of the Spring!—the great annual miracle.... which no force can stay, no violence restrain, like love, that wins its way and cannot be withstood by any human power, because itself is divine power. If Spring came but once in a century, instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake, and not in silence, what wonder and expectation would there be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change!... We are like children who are astonished and delighted only by the second-hand of the clock, not by the hour-hand.

Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again.