Death and passion are only different temperatures of man. We can change the temperature of passion, but God only can change the temperature of death. Copper is fine, but gold is finer. Gold is fine, but the air is finer. The air is fine, but the spirit is finer. The spirit is fine, but God is finer. One can live without copper, but not without gold. One can live without gold, but not without air. One can live without air, but not without spirit. One can live without spirit, but not without God. Many people sing, but few are singers. Many people write, but few are writers. Many people speak, but few are orators. Many people think, but few are thinkers. Many people pray, but few are religious. Many people smile, but few are happy. Many people hope, but few are not disappointed. Many people die, but few will survive. * * * * * Sweetness and bitterness are enemies, but both are necessary in this world. Light and darkness are enemies, but both are necessary. Poison may do no harm if used properly; nor is darkness harmful if it comes and goes at due times. It is better that your good deed should be forgotten than that your evil deed should make you famous. You will begin to be a good man when you prefer anonymity to false fame. If you offend a mother, remember that her son will be angry with you, and you will understand him because you are a son too. If you offend a girl, remember that her brother will be angry with you, and you will understand because you are a brother too. If you hate a man, remember that there is a woman who does better than that, for he had a mother who loves him. Can you not equal a woman? God and a mother asked each other the same question: "How long will you continue to forgive your children?" * * * * * A man is like a drop of water, but mankind is like the ocean. A drop of water cannot endure a look of the sun, but the ocean bears iron and lead. A man is like one blade of grass. Mankind is like a meadow. A traveller going along does not see the blade, but the meadow rejoices his sight. A man's life is not one man's life, but is the life of mankind so closely interwoven that it resembles the carpet covering the floor of a room. Things happen to-day, the cause of which began yesterday; but things also happen to-day, the cause of which date from the beginning of the world. Man grows old, but not the world. Man dies, but the world cannot. The world cannot die, because it is in touch with God, and therefore is immortal. Not everything is in touch with God, nor yet with the sun. Everything is affected by the sun directly or indirectly, and the same is true of God. The best things are a bridge between God and the world, but God only knows what the best things are. Cold makes darkness deeper, just as darkness makes cold more intense. The progress of the heart is slower than the progress of the brain.