“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.”
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It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Science may have found a cure for most evils but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.
