The heart bow'd down by weight of woe, To weakest hope will cling, To thought and impulse while they flow, That can no comfort bring, That can, that can no comfort bring, With those exciting scenes will blend, O'er pleasure's pathway thrown; But mem'ry is the only friend That grief can call its own.

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only hold man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.

Pentecost The Spirit is Love expressed towards man as redeeming love, and the Spirit is truth, and the Spirit is the Holy Spirit. Redemption is inconceivable without truth and holiness. But the mere fact that the Holy Spirit's first recorded action in the gospels is an expression of redeeming love should cause us to suspect a teaching which represents His work as primarily, if not solely, the sanctification of our own souls to the practical exclusion of His activity in us towards others. It is important to teach of Him as the Spirit of holiness; it is also important to teach of Him as the Spirit which in us labours for the salvation of men everywhere.

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

Health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of: a blessing that money cannot buy.

Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.

From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.

Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.

I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

A Corpse or a Ghost-- . . . I'd sooner be one or t'other, square and fair, than a Ghost in a Corpse, which is my feelins at present.

With effervescing opinions, the quickest way to let them get flat is to let them get exposed to the air.

With all appliances and means to boot. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 1.

I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.

Millions of stars blazed in darkness, and on the far shore a few lights burned in cottages. Otherwise there was no reminder of human life.

I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus With tigery stripes, and a face on it Round as the moon, to stare up. I want to be looking at them when they come Picking among the dumb minerals, the roots. I see them already-the pale, star-distance faces. Now they are nothing, they are not even babies. I imagine them without fathers or mothers, like the first gods. They will wonder if I was important.

This making of Christians will raise the price of hogs; if we grow all to be pork-eaters, we shall not shortly have a rasher on the coals for money.

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

Praise the sea; on shore remain.