The place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through their friendship, all the more sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old.

It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. He knows his limitations. The only chance of any healthy life for him is to be as full a beech-tree as he can.

Newton's great generalization, which he called the "third law of motion," was that "Action and reaction are always equal to each other;" and that law has been one of the most pregnant of all truths about the mystery of force;--one of the brightest windows through which modern eyes have looked into the world of Nature.

We anticipate a time when the love of truth shall have come up to our love of liberty, and men shall be cordially tolerant and earnest believers both at once.

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God.

For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all; No palace too great, no cottage too small.