No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth..

The grave is but the threshold of eternity. What a world were this, how unendurable its weight, If they whom death hath sundered, did not meet again!.

Without religion the highest endowments of intellect can only render the possessor more dangerous if he be ill disposed; if well disposed, only more ….

There are some readers who have never read an essay on taste; and if they take my advice they never will, for they can no more improve their taste by….

The pulpit is a clergyman's parade; the parish is his field of active service..

It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also..

A good man and a wise man may at times be angry with the world, at times grieved for it; but be sure no man was ever discontented with the world who ….

If you would be pungent, be brief..

And everybody praised the Duke Who this great fight did win. "But what good came of it at last?" Quoth little Peterkin. "Why, that I cannot tell," sa….

A house is never perfectly furnished for enjoyment unless there is a child in it rising three years old, and a kitten rising three weeks..

The solitary Bee Whose buzzing was the only sound of life, Flew there on restless wing, Seeking in vain one blossom where to fix..

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 natu….

In the days of my youth I remembered my God! And He hath not forgotten my age..

There is healing in the bitter cup..

To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible..

Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity..

The laws are with us, and God on our side..

Few people give themselves time to be friends..

Happy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and as wisely as we endure adverse fortune..

They sin who tell us love can die; With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. Love is indestructible, Its holy flame forever burnet….

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 w….