Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.

Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.

Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.

Now what is it that moves our very hearts and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes?.. They have done us no harm and they have no power of resistance... There is something so very dreadful, so Satanic, in tormenting those who have never harmed us, who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power.

God created you to do him some particular service. He has given some work to you that he has not given to another. You have your mission. You shall do good.

There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.

Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.