And step by step, since time began, I see the steady gain of man.

The hope of all earnest souls must be realized.

The continuity of life is never broken; the river flows onward and is lost to our sight, but under its new horizon it carries the same waters which it gathered under ours, and its unseen valleys are made glad by the offerings which are borne down to them from the past,--flowers, perchance, the germs of which its own waves had planted on the banks of Time.

And step by step, since time began, I see the steady gain of man.

the joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you

Falsehoods which we spurn today, were the truths of long ago.

A charmed life old goodness hath; the tares may perish, but the grain is not for death.