Did it ever strike you on such a morning as this that drowning would be happiness and peace?

Upon the purple tree-tops far away, and on the green height near at hand up which the shades were slowly creeping, there was an equal hush. Between the real landscape and its shadow in the water, there was no division; both were so untroubled and clear, and, while so fraught with solemn mystery of life and death, so hopefully reassuring to the gazer's soothed heart, because so tenderly and mercifully beautiful.

The jovial party broke up next morning. Breakings-up are capital things in our school-days, but in after life they are painful enough. Death, self-interest, and fortune's changes, are every day breaking up many a happy group, and scattering them far and wide; and the boys and girls never come back again.

One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind.

Make them laugh, make them cry, make them wait.

The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.

things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up