We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.
Service makes men competent.
Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
Patience is passion tamed.
It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.
In New York - whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame - not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements.