No longer forward or behind I look in hope or fear, But grateful, take the good I find, The best of now and here.

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

Who fathoms the Eternal Thought? Who talks of scheme and plan? The Lord is God! He needeth not The poor device of man.

This is truth the poet sings . . .

Rest if you must, but never quit.

Truth should be the first lesson of the child and the last aspiration of manhood; for it has been well said that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.

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