The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

I laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me; If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea.

Soul Gathers Force It is possible, when the future is dim, when our depressed faculties can form no bright ideas of the perfection and happiness of a better world,-it is possible still to cling to the conviction of God's merciful purpose towards His creatures, of His parental goodness even in suffering, still to feel that the path of duty, though trodden with a heavy heart, leads to peace.

War will never yield but to the principles of universal justice and love, and these have no sure root but in the religion of Jesus Christ.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

Knowledge is essential to freedom.

I am a living member of the great family of all souls.