Make A Pearl
The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is
this:
Irritations get into his shell.
He does not like them.
But when he cannot get rid of them,
he uses the irritations to do the loveliest
thing
an oyster ever has a chance to do.
If there are irritations in our lives
today,
there is only one prescription:
Make a pearl!
~Harry Emerson Fosdick
