Love seems to beautify and inspire all nature. It raises the earthly caterpillar into the ethereal butterfly, it paints the feathers in spring, it lights the glowworm's lamp, it wakens the song of birds, and inspires the poet's lay. Even inanimate Nature seems to feel the spell, and flowers glow with the richest colours.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

A poor woman from Manchester, on being taken to the seaside, is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody.

Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

Our own happiness ought not to be our main objective in life.