As no doubt you guess, life has been rather an uphill journey with us.

But the home must be guarded against sordid cares to the last possible moment; nothing upsets me more than the sight of those poor homes where wife and children are obliged to talk from morning to night of how the sorry earnings shall be laid out.
No, no; women, old or young, should never have to think about money.
The magnificent summer sunshine, and the western breeze that tasted of ocean, heightened his natural cheeriness.

Dr.Madden fell into a familiar strain of prescience.
'There will come a day, Alice, when neither man nor woman is troubled with such sordid care.

Not yet awhile; no, no; but the day will come.
Human beings are not destined to struggle for ever like beasts of prey.
Give them time; let civilization grow.

You know what our poet says: "There the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe--"' He quoted the couplet with a subdued fervour which characterized the man and explained his worldly lot.