Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest

Go out of the house to see the moon, and't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey.

The April winds are magical, And thrill our tuneful frames; The garden-walks are passional To bachelors and dames.

Don't hang a dismal picture on the wall, and do not daub with sables and glooms in your conversation. Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Nerve us with incessant affirmatives. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. When that is spoken which has a right to be spoken, the chatter and the criticism will stop. Set down nothing that will not help somebody.

Give all to love: Obey thy heart; Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good fame, Plans, credit, and the Muse,- Nothing refuse.

The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew: The conscious stone to beauty grew.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.