Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.

Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination.

Prayer is a sacred and appointed means to obtain all the blessings that we want, whether they relate to this life or the life to come.

The tall, the wise, the reverend head Must lie as low as ours.

I have been there, and still would go; 'T is like a little heaven below.

There's not a plant or flower below but makes Thy glories known, And clouds arise, and tempests blow by order from Thy throne; While all that borrows life from Thee is ever in Thy care; And everywhere that we can be, Thou, God art present there.

Thoughts, like old vultures, prey upon their heart-strings