Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.

The new novel is sought more eagerly, and devoured more greedily, the New Testament.

A sunny temper [an attitude of gratitude for what blessings and mercies there are] gilds the edges of life's blackest cloud.

The mental powers acquire their full robustness when the cheek loses its ruddy hue, and the limbs their elastic step; and pale thought sits on manly brows, and the watchman, as he walks his rounds, sees the student's lamp burning far into the silent night.

As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.

The work that is done in love loses half its tedium and difficulty.

The finest flowers of genius have grown in an atmosphere where those of Nature are prone to droop, and difficult to bring to maturity.