Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph |
Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, ''Where is it?'' |
Friendship is a sheltering tree. |
General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves. |
Good and bad men are each less so than they seem |
Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends. |
He holds him with his glittering eye. |
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope. |
He prayeth best, who loveth best / All things both great and small; / For the dear God who loveth us,/ He made and loveth all. |
He prayeth well, who loveth well / Both man and bird and beast. |
He saw a cottage with a double coach house, A cottage of gentility; And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride that apes humility |
He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all |
How deep a wound to morals and social purity has that accursed article of the celibacy of the clergy been! Even the best and most enlightened men in Romanist countries attach a notion of impurity to the marriage of a clergyman. And can such a feeling be without its effect on the estimation of the wedded life in general? Impossible! and the morals of both sexes in Spain, Italy, France, and. prove it abundantly. |
How inimitably graceful children are before they learn to dance |
How inimitably graceful children are before they learn to dance |