Our natural and happiest life is when we lose ourselves in the exquisite absorption of home, the delicious retirement of dependent love.

A person who is careless about money is careless about everything, and untrustworthy in everything.

absence ... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love.

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.

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. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why.

O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as time steals onwards, while none perceives Slowly she clothes herself with leaves.

Do your neighbour good by all means in your power, moral as well as physical - by kindness, by patience, by unflinching resistance against every outward evil - by the silent preaching of your own contrary life. But if the only good you can do him is by talking at him, or about him - nay, even to him, if it be in a self-satisfied, super-virtuous style - such as I earnestly hope the present writer is not doing - you had much better leave him alone.