Life Has A Higher End, Than To

Perhaps In Our Presence, The Most Heroic Deed On Earth Is Done In Some Silent Spirit, The Loftiest Purpose Cherished, The Most Generous Sacrifice Made, And We Do Not Suspect It. I Believe This Greatness To Be Most Common Among The Multitude, Whose Names Are Never Heard.

We Honor Revelation Too Highly To Make It The Antagonist Of Reason, Or To Believe That It Calls Us To Renounce Our Highest Powers.

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.

It Has Often Been Observed, That Those Who Have The Most Time At Their Disposal Profit By It The Least. A Single Hour A Day, Steadily Given To The Study Of Some Interesting Subject, Brings Unexpected Accumulations Of Knowledge.

Others Are Affected By What I Am, And Say, And Do. So That A Single Act Of Mine May Spread And Spread In Widening Circles, Through A Nation Or Humanity. Through My Vice I Intensify The Taint Of Vice Throughout The Universe. Through My Misery I Make Multitudes Sad. On The Other Hand, Every Development Of My Virtue Makes Me An Ampler Blessing To My Race. Every New Truth That I Gain Makes Me A Brighter Light To Humanity.