Every country-or at least every country that is fit for habitation-has its own rivers; and every river has its own quality; and it is the part of wisdom to know and love as many as you can, seeing each in the fairest possible light, and receiving from each the best that it has to give.

Love is not getting, but giving; It is goodness, and honor, and peace and pure living.

Gratitude is a two fold love - love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest.

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

If all the skies were sunshine Our faces would be fain To feel once more upon them The cooling splash of rain. If all the world were music, Our hearts would often long For one sweet strain of silence, To break the endless song If life were always merry, Our souls would seek relief, And rest from weary laughter In the quiet arms of grief.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Heaven is blest with perfect rest, but the blessing of Earth is toil.