Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.

A perverted moral judgment belongs to the dogmatic system.

As to memory, it is known that this frail faculty naturally lets drop the facts which are less flattering to our self-love - when it does not retain them carefully as subjects not to be approached, marshy spots with a warning flag over them.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty.