If there is good ground for the seed to fall upon, and we sow good seed, it will come up with its thirtyfold or more, as seed sown in the mind seems always to come up, whether it be good or bad, and even if it has lain dormant for years.

There are good moments laid up in store for the future when the words, which have been familiar for years, suddenly awake to life, and their meaning, full-grown, at the moment when we need it, or at the moment when we are able to understand its value, dawns upon the mind.

Then we are grateful to those who invested these revenues for us though we knew it not.

We are not grateful to those who give us the less good though pleasant and easy to enjoy.

A little severity and fastidiousness render us better service.