As You Emphasize Your Life, You Must

Life Comes Before Literature, As The Material Always Comes Before The Work. The Hills Are Full Of Marble Before The World Blooms With Statues.

It Is God's World Still. It Has Been Given To Man Not Absolutely, But In Trust, That Man May Work Out In It The Will Of God; Given-may We Not Say?-just As A Father Gives A Child A Corner Of His Great Garden, And Says, "there, That Is Yours; Now Cultivate It."

The Faith Which You Keep Must Be A Faith That Demands Obedience, And You Can Keep It Only By Obeying It.

The Place Where Two Friends First Met Is Sacred To Them All Through Their Friendship, All The More Sacred As Their Friendship Deepens And Grows Old.

Distrust Your Religion Unless It Is Cheerful, Unless It Turns Every Act And Deed To Music And Exults In Attempts To Catch The Harmony Of The New Life.‎