The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future.

...there's never a garden in all the parish but what there's endless waste in it for want o' somebody as could use everything up. It's what I think to myself sometimes, as there need nobody run short o' victuals if the land was made the most on, and there was never a morsel but what could find it's way to a mouth.

in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.

The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags , we now and then arrive just where we ought to be.