Men think God is destroying them because he is tuning them. The violinist screws up the key till the tense cord sounds the concert pitch; but it is not to break it, but to use it tunefully, that he stretches the string upon the musical rack.
THERE are joys which long to be ours.
Education is only like good culture,--it changes the size, but not the sort.
No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.
The more sincere we are in our belief, as a rule, the less demonstrative we are.
The religion of Jesus Christ is not ascetic, nor sour, nor gloomy, nor circumscribing. It is full of sweetness in the present and in promise.