Now, mark, God is the Giver of all gifts, and all things that are best and highest are His real and most peculiar gifts. There all things are present unto thee, and live and move and have their being, in Him, who is the Holy and Sovereign God. Because thou are not at home there. The nobler a thing is, the commoner it is. The nobler things are, the commoner they are.
Love is noble, because it is universal.
It seems hard to do that which our Lord has commanded, and to love our neighbours as ourselves. But no, it should be otherwise. A command seems hard, but a reward is desirable. He, who loves God as he ought to love Him, yea, and as he must love Him, whether he will or no, and as all creatures love Him, must love his neighbour as himself. Then that man will be always rejoicing, always useful, and always honourable.