Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.

We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding.

because God has spoken, and everything else is commentary.

Have faith have faith. When you have nothing else have faith.

Sunday, January 27, 1884. -- There was another story in the paper a week or so since. A gentleman had a favourite cat whom he taught to sit at the dinner table where it behaved very well. He was in the habit of putting any scraps he left onto the cat's plate. One day puss did not take his place punctually, but presently appeared with two mice, one of which it placed on its master's plate, the other on its own.

There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.