If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.

Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.

We often praise the evening clouds, And tints so gay and bold, But seldom think upon our God, Who tinged these clouds with gold.

There are those to whom a sense of religion has come in storm and tempest; there are those whom it has summoned amid scenes of revelry and idle vanity; there are those, too, who have heard its "still small voice" amid rural leisure and placid retirement. But perhaps the knowledge which causeth not to err is most frequently impressed upon the mind during the season of affliction.

My hope, my heaven, my trust must be, My gentle guide, in following thee.

Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.

What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.