It is Lucifer, The son of mystery; And since God suffers him to be, He too, is God's minister, And labors for some good By us not understood.

The everyday cares and duties, which men call drudgery, are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of time, giving its pendulum a true vibration and its hands a regular motion; and when they cease to hang upon its wheels, the pendulum no longer swings, the hands no longer move the clock stands still.

To charm, to strengthen, and to teach: these are the three great chords of might.

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

When you ask one friend to dine, Give him your best wine! When you ask two, The second best will do!

The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.