Do we all become garrulous and confidential as we approach the gates of old age? Is it that we instinctively feel, and cannot help asserting, our one advantage over the younger generation, which has so many over us? - the one advantage of time!

Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879.

One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.

Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.

Learn the lesson of your own pain--learn to seek God, not in any single event of past history, but in your own soul--in the constant verifications of experience, in the life of Christian love.

praise is a great tonic, and helps most people to do their best.

There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.