THE way some persons lay on their life layer after layer of blackness is pitiable; they nurse their grief for the wrongs of men till they have no pleasure but in brooding over darkness.

O brothers, let us leave the shame and sin 

Of taking vainly, in a plaintive mood,

HAPPINESS, and brightness in God’s service is a great gift and one that wins others to Him

WE should not sadden the harmless mirth of others by suffering our own melancholy to be seen

FIRST, keep thyself in peace, and then shalt thou be able to make peace among others.

the rescue of a soul from foolish pride must be not by a depreciation of present attainment, but by opening more and more the vastness of the future possibility

He that is down need fear no fall, 
         He that is low, no pride;
He that is humble ever shall
         Have God to be his guide.”

In all these things, from childhood’s little troubles to the martyr’s sufferings, patience is the grace of God, whereby we endure evil for the love of God.

to be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a most commendable and manly thing.

ON the whole it is patience which makes the final difference between those who succeed or fail, in all things.