The Living Are Just The Dead On

Brave Old-flowers! Wall-flowers, Gilly Flowers, Stocks! For Even As The Field-flowers, From Which A Trifle, A Ray Of Beauty, A Drop Of Perfume, Divides Them, They Have Charming Names, The Softest In The Language; And Each Of Them, Like Tiny, Art-less Ex-votos, Or Like Medals Bestowed By The Gratitude Of Men, Proudly Bears Three Or Four.

Above All, Let Us Never Forget That An Act Of Goodness Is In Itself An Act Of Happiness. It Is The Flower Of A Long Inner Life Of Joy And Contentment; It Tells Of Peaceful Hours And Days On The Sunniest Heights Of Our Soul.

No Great Inner Event Befalls Those Who Summon It Not

The Dog Is The Only Living Being That Has Found And Recognizes An Indubitable, Tangible And Definite God. He Knows To Whom Above Him To Give Himself. He Has Not To Seek For A Superior And Infinite Power.

The Truth That Seems Discouraging Does In Reality Only Transform The Courage Of Those Strong Enough To Accept It; And, In Any Event, A Truth That Disheartens, Because It Is True, Is Still Of Far More Value Than The Most Stimulating Of Falsehoods.