In books, or work, or healthful play.

Must I be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease, while others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas?

Hush! my dear, lie still and slumber, Holy angels guard thy bed! Heavenly blessing without number Gently falling on thy head.

Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.

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

Forbid it Lord that I should boast, save in the death of Christ, my God: All the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to his blood.

Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.