Mine to the core of the heart, my beauty! Mine, all mine, and for love, not duty: Love given willingly, full and free, Love for love's sake - as m….

Human life is so full of pain, that once past the youthful delusion that a sad countenance is interesting, and an incurable woe the most delightful t….

A parent, unlike a poet, is not born - he is made..

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….

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

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 ….

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

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….

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

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

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 ….

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….

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….

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

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….

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….

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….

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..

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….

Many true words are spoken in jest..