Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

He went like one that hath been stunn'd, And is of sense forlorn: A sadder and a wiser man He rose the morrow morn.

Health is a great blessing--competence obtained by honorable industry is a great blessing--and a great blessing it is to have kind, faithful, and loving friends and relatives; but, that the greatest of all blessings, as it is the most ennobling of all privileges, is to be indeed a Christian.

The water-lily, in the midst of waters, opens its leaves and expands its petals, at the first pattering of the shower, and rejoices in the rain-drops with a quicker sympathy than the packed shrubs in the sandy desert.

Intellect really exists in its products; its kingdom is here.

He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.