The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.

It is good for us to think that no grace or blessing is truly ours till we are aware that God has blessed some one else with it through us.

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.

Pray for and work for fullness of life above every thing; full red blood in the body; full honesty and truth in the mind; and the fullness of a grateful love for the Saviour in your heart.

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.

Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer; Death is strong, but Life is stronger; Stronger than the dark, the light; Stronger than the wrong, the right; Faith and Hope triumphant say Christ will rise on Easter Day.

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.