Let us therefore comfort ourselves with everlasting hope, "as with enchantments," as Plato recommends, never forgetting, however, that we all have our duties here and that the kingdom of heaven is within us.

It also passed into an axiom with us that he who proclaims there is no hereafter is as foolish as he who proclaims there is, since neither can know, though all may and should hope.

Meanwhile "Home our heaven" instead of "Heaven our home" was our motto.
During these years of which I have been writing, the family fortunes had been steadily improving.

My thirty-five dollars a month had grown to forty, an unsolicited advance having been made by Mr.Scott.It was part of my duty to pay the men every month.[19] We used checks upon the bank and I drew my salary invariably in two twenty-dollar gold pieces.

They seemed to me the prettiest works of art in the world.