Every day is a test-day; every hour is an examination-hour. God puts each fresh morning, each new chance of life, into our hands as a gift, to see what we will do with it.

To take life “as God gives it, not as we want it,” and then make the best of it, is the hard lesson that life puts before the human soul to learn.

Worry is spiritual near-sightedness; a fumbling way of looking at little things, and of magnifying their value.

God gives us always strength enough, and sense enough for every thing he wants us to do.

To have a friend is to have one of the sweetest gifts that life can bring:.