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.

One cannot make oneself, but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else. It is well.

A lost love. Deny it who will, ridicule it, treat it as mere imagination and sentiment, the thing is and will be; and women do suffer therefrom, in all its infinite varieties: loss by death, by faithlessness or unworthiness, and by mistaken or unrequited affection.

Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning.

Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence. The Omnipotent Himself could never be supposed by any, save those who out of their own human selfishness construct the attributes of Divinity, to be absorbed throughout eternity in the contemplation of His own ineffable bliss, were it not identical with His ineffable goodness and love.

One only "right" we have to assert in common with mankind--and that is as much in our hands as theirs--is the right of having something to do.

Down in the deep, up in the sky , I see them always, far or nigh, And I shall see them till I die The old familiar faces.