If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

If the world's a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it.

Whatever science and philosophy may do for mankind, the world can never outgrow its need of the simplicity that is in Christ.

Some of us must wait for the best human gifts until we come to heavenly places. Our natural desire for musical utterance is perhaps a prophecy that in a perfect world we shall all know how to sing.

A complete autobiography would indeed be a picture of the outer and inner universe photographed upon one little life's consciousness. For does not the whole world, seen and unseen, go to the making up of every human being?

One mistake with beginners in writing is, that they think it important to spin out something long. It is a great deal better not to write more than a page or two, unless you have something to say, and can write it correctly.