For the most part, we should pray rather in aspiration than petition, rather by hoping than requesting; in which spirit also we may breathe a devout wish for a blessing on others upon occasions when it might be presumptuous to beg it.
The groundwork of all happiness is health.
Light is, perhaps, the most wonderful of all visible things.
There seems a life in hair, though it be dead.
Cats at firesides live luxuriously and are the picture of comfort.
Improvement is nature.