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

Take away love, and not physical nature only, but the heart of the moral world, would be palsied.

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

I have heard a good story of Charles Fox. When his house was on fire, he found all efforts to save it useless, and, being a good draughtsman, he went up to the next hill to make a drawing of the fire,--the best instance of philosophy I ever heard of.

Kitten is in the animal world what the rosebud is in the garden; the one the most beautiful of all young creatures, the other the loveliest of all opening flowers.

The true one of youth's love, proving a faithful helpmate in those years when the dream of life is over, and we live in its realities.

The pulpit is a clergyman's parade; the parish is his field of active service.