To despond is to lie ungrateful beforehand. Be not looking for evil. Often thou drainest the gall of fear while evil is passing by thy dwelling.
Martin Farquhar TupperNot few nor light are the burdens of life; then load it not with heaviness of spirit.
Martin Farquhar TupperLay not the plummet to the line; religion hath no landmarks; no human keenness can discern the subtle shades of faith.
Martin Farquhar TupperLove is the weapon which Omnipotence reserved to conquer rebel man when all the rest had failed. Reason he parries; fear he answers blow for blow; future interest he meets with present pleasure; but love, that sun against whose melting beams the winter cannot stand--that soft subliming slumber which wrestles down the giant, there is not one human being in a million, nor a thousand men in all earth's huge quintillion, whose clay heart is hardened against love.
Martin Farquhar Tupper