Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. By these tendrils we clasp it and climb thitherward. And why do we think that we are separated from them? We never half knew them, nor in this world could.

Many yet are the secret truths of God which will be unfolded as they are needed.

Love is God's loaf; and this is that feeding for which we are taught to pray, "Give us this day our daily bread."

Whenever education and refinement carry us away from the common people, they are growing towards selfishness, which is the monster evil of the world. That is true cultivation which gives us sympathy with every form of human life, and enables us to work most successfully for its advancement. Refinement that carries us away from our fellow people is not God's refinement.

Many men are stored full of unused knowledge. Like loaded guns that are never fired off, or military magazines in times of peace, they are stuffed with useless ammunition.

We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.

There are sorrows that are not painful, but are of the nature of some acids, and give piquancy and flavor to life.