God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love.

The seeds of first instructions are dropp'd into the deepest furrows.

To despond is to lie ungrateful beforehand. Be not looking for evil. Often thou drainest the gall of fear while evil is passing by thy dwelling.

A man looketh on his little one as a being of better hope; in himself ambition is dead, but it bath a resurrection in his son.

Love is the weapon which Omnipotence reserved to conquer rebel man when all the rest had failed. Reason he parries; fear he answers blow for blow; future interest he meets with present pleasure; but love, that sun against whose melting beams the winter cannot stand--that soft subliming slumber which wrestles down the giant, there is not one human being in a million, nor a thousand men in all earth's huge quintillion, whose clay heart is hardened against love.

Men scanning the surface count the wicked happy; they see not the frightful dreams that crowd a bad man's pillow.

Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character.