“This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.”
Age“Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.”
Fear“This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.”
Age“Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.”
Death“Who loves, raves.”
Love“I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.”
Great“Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.”
Life“Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.”
God“Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.”
Friendship“'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.”
Death“Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.”
Society“Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.”
Alone“Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.”
God“Absence - that common cure of love.”
Love“Man, being reasonable, must get drunk the best of life is but intoxication.”
Best“They never fail who die in a great cause.”
Great“Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.”
Wisdom“Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.”
Men“What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.”
Age“The heart will break, but broken live on.”
Movingon“Smiles form the channels of a future tear.”
Future“There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.”
Religion