A Short Walk… That Never Ends December 6, 1959
“Life is a short walk along a narrow thread . . . beginning and ending in a mysterious unknown. Hope keeps us balanced as we walk the narrow line. Life is short as we see it, but in reality ....
A Where One Door Shuts, Another Ope December 27, 1959
There is a maximum quoted Don Quixote which says: “Where one door shuts, another opens, …” We come to an end, and find a beginning. Often we worry about arriving at an end, with too...
As Parents and Children Come to Common Ground November 29, 1959
Its is odd and interesting how each generation listens impatiently to the lessons of the past, and feels that they are old fashioned. Youth is so sure the rules have changed. Age is sure they...
At Summer's End… September 20, 1959
The passing of any season is somewhat sobering, or any day, or any period of the past. When a season begins, when a day begins, we think what we will do with it−what we haven’t done−what we...
But Marriage Is Another Matter… May 31, 1959
Concerning Inner Resources… January 11, 1959
Because so much is done for so many of us, both by men and machines, because we have become accustomed to so much service, the use of hands and feet, and even of minds, has, in many instances, been...
Every Man…Must Be Trusted to Himself June 14, 1959
Concerning men and physical and spiritual discipline, we cite some sentences form John Locke: “Consent to nothing but what may be suitable to the dignity and excellency of a rational...
Forgiving and Forgetting November 8, 1959
Happiness--and the Paradox of Comparison August 9, 1959
A sentence written some two or more centuries ago is significant in the search for the happiness that all of us so much seek. “If one only wished to be happy,” it says, “this could...
He That Will Have His Son Respect Him… June 28, 1959
On the teaching and training of children, John Locke said: “For you must take this for a certain truth, that let them have what instructions you will, and ever so learned lectures…daily...
Health… Happiness… and Physical Fitness May 3, 1959
In a few sentences we should like to share some thoughts on physical fitness, on health and happiness. People may perform well despite physical frailties, despite impairments, despite ill health,...
Home Is Yet Wherever She Is May 10, 1959
In speaking to an occasion a century or so ago, Rufus Choate left some lines on love of country that seem to have as much of meaning for love of home: “There is a love,” he said,...
Humility, Hard Work, and Integrity June 7, 1959
We are mindful these days of young people who are moving into life’s more permanent pursuits. We are mindful also of the many decisions facing those who have completed some part of their...
Idleness and Inactivity September 13, 1959
There comes a time in the lives of those who live longer, when for one reason or another, they must alter their activities. Things change, and people change, and personnel and procedures change....
If Washington Were Here… February 22, 1959
Our problems seem very different in some ways from those that Washington faced at Valley Forge, but the principles that pertain to people basically, are constant. And if George Washington were here...
Letting Habits Harden July 12, 1959
Time passes with exceeding swiftness between the time when we are very young and free and flexible until the time when thoughts and habits and attitudes become somewhat firmly fixed. And since fixed...
Little Brass Nails… September 27, 1959
Perhaps all of set our hearts upon some things which, after we acquire them, seem somewhat shallow, or at least unessential. And when we wonder why we wished for them so much and worked for them so...
Love at Home… November 22, 1959
An able physician recently suggested three short questions that could be asked to indicate how well a particular person might adjust to troubles and tensions: If the patient or the person can...
Never Make Life Smaller April 12, 1959
Decisions can be exceedingly difficult, and in one sense, there are no unimportant decisions, for even small decisions often indicate character and judgement. Any expression of preference may...
O Man, Whosoever Thou Art… October 25, 1959
There is a long-told tale of Alexander the Great, who paused, at the age of thirty-two at the tomb of Cyrus the Great⎯Cyrus who had preceded Alexander by some two centuries. Each in his own time had...