Make It Your Habit Not To Be

Never Bear More Than One Trouble At A Time. Some People Bear Three Kinds - All They Have Had, All They Have Now, And All They Expect To Have.

No Gilded Dome Swells From The Lowly Roof To Catch The Morning Or Evening Beam; But The Love And Gratitude Of United America Settle Upon It In One Eternal Sunshine. From Beneath That Humble Roof Went Forth The Intrepid And Unselfish Warrior, The Magistrate Who Knew No Glory But His Country's Good; To That He Returned, Happiest When His Work Was Done. There He Lived In Noble Simplicity, There He Died In Glory And Peace.

The Church Itself Has Got To Go Outside Of Its Own Borders And Carry The Gospel To Ev'ry Creature, Or It Is No Church Of Christ; And Any Mutual Improvement Club Which Thinks That By Reading Its Shakspearo, Or By Acting Its Pretty Tableaux, Or By Having. This Or That Little Reading From Spenser And From Chaucer, It Is Going To Lift Itself Up Into Any Higher Order Of Culture Or Life, Is Wholly Mistaken, Unless As An Essential Part Of Its Duty, It Goes Out Into The World, Finds Those That Are Falling Down, And Lifts Them Up To The Majesty Of Freemen, Who Are Sons Of God.

[i]t Is Easy To Regard The Mind And The Body As Two Slaves Trained To Obey The Imperial Soul.... [i]n This Trinity Of Soul, Mind, And Body, It Is Sometimes Hard To Tell Which Of The Three Is At Work; And The Personality Of Each Of The Three Parties Interferes A Good Deal With That Of Each Of The Others. But If You Who Read Will Remember That You Are An Infinite Child Of God, And Can Partake Of His Nature, And That You Have Given To You The Management And Direction Of Your Mind And Your Body, You Will Be Saved Many Failures.

Friendship Is One Of The Greatest Luxuries Of Life.