That man is always happy who is in the presence of something which he cannot know to the full, which he is always going on to know.

The history of humanity is not the history of its wars, but the history of its households.

If we pretend to have reached either perfection or satisfaction, we have degraded ourselves and our work. God's work only may express that, but ours may never have that sentence written upon it, Behold it was very good.

Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time, and not be discouraged at the rests. If we say sadly to ourselves, "There is no music in a rest," let us not forget " there is the making of music in it." The making of music is often a slow and painful process in this life. How patiently God works to teach us! How long He waits for us to learn the lesson!

Hope- the recognition, by true foresight, of better things to be reached here after.

Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.