There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.

Life is too short for mean anxieties.

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

All the butterflies and cockyolybirds would fly past me.

Take comfort, and recollect however little you and I may know, God knows; He knows Himself and you and me and all things; and His mercy is over all His works.

If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love.

A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.