There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before some things are spoken – the manner, the place and the time.
Love is indestructible, Its holy flame forever burneth; From heaven it came, to heaven returneth.
There is healing in the bitter cup.
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.
Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity.
The history of any private family, however humble, could it be fully related for five or six generations, would illustrate the state and progress of society better than the most elaborate dissertation.
The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.
How beautiful is night! A dewy freshness fills the silent air; No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven.
It is with words as with sunbeams-the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
The three indispensable of genius are: understanding, feeling, and perseverance; the three things that enrich genius are: contentment of mind, the cherishing of good thoughts, and the exercise of memory.
A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. They appear so while they are passing; they seem to have been so when we look back on them; and they take up more room in our memory than all the years that succeed them.
Some people seem born with a head in which the thin partition that divides great wit from folly is wanting.
She comes majestic with her swelling sails, The gallant Ship: along her watery way, Homeward she drives before the favouring gales; Now flirting at their length the streamers play, And now they ripple with the ruffling breeze.
A man may be cheerful and contented in celibacy, but I do not think he can ever be happy; it is an unnatural state, and the best feelings of his nature are never called into action.
A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness.
The pulpit is a clergyman’s parade; the parish is his field of active service.
And as, when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The Holly leaes a sober hue display Less bright than they, But when the bare and wintry woods we see, What then so cheerful as the Holly-tree?
The grave Is but the threshold of eternity.