Few people give themselves time to be friends.

Be thankful that your lot has fallen on times when, though there may be many evil tongues and exasperated spirits, there are none who have fire and fagot at command.

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.

Our restlessness in this world seems to indicate that we are intended for a better. We have all of us a longing after happiness; and surely the Creator will gratify all the natural desires he has implanted in us.

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?

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

In fall-orbed glory, yonder moon divine, Rolls through the dark blue depths.