Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?

Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.

To the old, sorrow is sorrow; to the young, it is despair.

Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years.

Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.

I have always been thinking of the different ways in which Christianity is taught, and whenever I find one way that makes it a wider blessing than any other, I cling to that as the truest--I mean that which takes in the most good of all kinds, and brings in the most people as sharers in it. It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.