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

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!

So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us.

Every great religion is, in truth, a concentration of great ideas, capable, as all ideas are, of infinite expansion and adaptation.

We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realize all they tell us.

... the strictness of to-day may have at any moment to be purchased by the laxity of to-morrow.

I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many.