Is there anything more contemptible than the self-indulgent life of the rich to-day who stand by and see the perishing of the poor?

To live for common ends is to be common—
The highest faith makes still the highest man ;
For we grow like the things our souls believe,
And rise or sink, as we aim, high or low.

in the valiant man and free,
The larger heart, the kindlier hand;
Ring out the darkness of the land,
Ring in the Christ that is to be. 

Be patient still;  suffer us yet a while longer;  with our broken purposes of good, with our idle endeavours against evil, suffer us a while longer to endure, and (if it may be) help us to do better.

LIFE is sweet, brother…   There’s night and day, brother, both sweet things;  sun, moon and stars, brother, all sweet things;  there’s likewise the wind on the heath.    Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?

WE MUST not take the faults of our youth into our old age;  for old age brings with it its own faults.

TO KNOW how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

And the kingdom of heaven is of the childlike, of those who are easy to please, who love and who give pleasure.

The smiling Baby came to give us glee,
But for the weepers was the Saviour born.