To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.
Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.
The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.