It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.

Happy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and as wisely as we endure adverse fortune.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

As sure as God is good, so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil.

Oh, when a mother meets on high The babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then for pains and fears, The day of woe, the watchful night, For all her sorrow, all her tears, An over-payment of delight?

From its fountains In the mountains, Its rills and its gills; Through moss and through brake, It runs and it creeps For awhile till it sleeps In its own little Lake. And thence at departing, Awakening and starting, It runs through the reeds And away it proceeds, Through meadow and glade, In sun and in shade, And through the wood-shelter, Among crags in its flurry, Helter-skelter, Hurry-scurry.

A fastidious taste is like a squeamish appetite; the one has its origin in some disease of the mind, as the other has in some ailment of the stomach.