The present is only intelligible in the light of the past.

If we with earnest effort could succeed To make our life one long, connected prayer, As lives of some, perhaps, have been and are; If, never leaving Thee, we have no need Our wandering spirits back again to lead Into Thy presence, but continued there Like angels standing on the highest stair Of the Sapphire Throne: this were to pray indeed!

None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only can fill it.

Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.

For we must share, if we would keep, that blessing from above; ceasing to give, we cease to have; such is the law of love.

The present is only intelligible in the light of the past.

We speak of persons as jovial, as being born under the planet Jupiter or Jove, which was the joyfullest star and the happiest augury of all. A gloomy person was said to be saturnine, as being born under the planet Saturn, who was considered to make those who owned his influence, and were born when he was in the ascendant, grave and stern as himself.