Many true words are spoken in jest..

The life of action is nobler than the life of thought..

When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it….

For truly, the greatest of all external blessings is it to be able to lean your heart against another heart, faithful, tender, true, and tried, and r….

Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away..

A true test of friendship, to sit or walk with a friend for an hour in perfect silence , without wearying of one another's company..

What comfort there is in a cheerful spirit! how the heart leaps up to meet a sunshiny face, a merry tongue, an even temper, and a heart which either ….

according to the old joke, married people are often like little boys bathing, who cry with chattering teeth to the boys on the shore, 'Do come in, it….

Those whose own light is quenched are often the light-bringers..

Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost..

Money is meant not for hoarding, but for using; the aim of life should be to use it in the right way - to spend as much as we can lawfully spend, bot….

Not perhaps until later life, until the follies, passions, and selfishness of youth have died out, do we . . . recognize the the inestimable blessing….

But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well as one's most foolish th….

Though it is folly to suppose that happiness is a matter of volition, and that we can make ourselves content and cheerful whenever we choose - a theo….

the worst times come to an end if you can only wait long enough..

We expect too much from our children. We exact from them a perfection which we are far from carrying out in ourselves; we require of them sacrifices ….

Be loving, and you will never want for love; be humble, and you will never want for guiding..

Autumn Into earth's lap does throw Brown apples gay in a game of play, As the equinoctials blow..

The present only is a man's possession; the past is gone out of his hand wholly, irrevocably. He may suffer from it, learn from it,--in degree, perha….

We never know through what Divine mysteries of compensation the great Father of the universe may be carrying out His sublime plan; but those three wo….

The wonder is not that some married people are less happy than they hoped to be, but that any married people, out of the honeymoon, or even in it, ar….