A man may make a misanthrope of himself, but he is never one by nature.

If the world 's a vale of tears, Smile, till rainbows span it!

Some of us must wait for the best human gifts until we come to heavenly places. Our natural desire for musical utterance is perhaps a prophecy that in a perfect world we shall all know how to sing.

A complete autobiography would indeed be a picture of the outer and inner universe photographed upon one little life's consciousness. For does not the whole world, seen and unseen, go to the making up of every human being?

In the older times it was seldom said to little girls, as it always has been said to boys, that they ought to have some definite plan, while they were children, what to be and do when they were grown up. There was usually but one path open before them, to become good wives and housekeepers. And the ambition of most girls was to follow their mothers' footsteps in this direction; a natural and laudable ambition. But girls, as well as boys, must often have been conscious of their own peculiar capabilities,--must have desired to cultivate and make use of their individual powers.

Whatever science and philosophy may do for mankind, the world can never outgrow its need of the simplicity that is in Christ.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be easy, or with the wish to have it so.