“Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.”
Great“All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.”
Dad“Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.”
Great“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.”
Gardening“I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.”
Future“Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.”
Anger“Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.”
Family“There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.”
Great“The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.”
History“Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.”
Death“It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.”
Good“Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?”
Experience“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.”
Faith“Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.”
Truth“Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.”
Jealousy“The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.”
God“Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.”
Pet“Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.”
Love“When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.”
Great“There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.”
Jealousy“Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.”
Failure“An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.”
Peace