“No news is good news,” is a saying, with all its quaintness, which has more force and depth in it than we are commonly aware of. For that calm, unmitigated, unruffled flow of time, which leaves little to be told, is the happiest as well as the safest period of our lives. It is like the gentle lapse of the rivers, which, without being noticed or talked of, is permitted quietly to fertilize the soil, and beautify the prospect, while the fame of the rapid and destructive torrent is noised abroad. In such a state we are led from that which is without to that which is within; from the bustle of the world to a quiet communion with our own hearts; from that which depends on the will, perhaps on the capricious and unaccountable whims of others, to that for which, under God’s good guidance, we may draw upon ourselves.—Bishop Jebb.