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Love lasts through life, and adapts itself to every age and circumstance; in childhood for father and mother, in manhood for wife, in age for children, and throughout for brothers and sisters, relations and friends.

Most of those who have written in praise of books have thought they could say nothing more conclusive than to compare them to friends.

Some people never seem to appreciate their friends till they have lost them.

We love the ticking of the clock, and the flicker of the fire, like the sound of the cawing of rooks, not so much for any beauty of their own as for their associations.

I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.

Concentration makes the individual life simpler and deeper.

Each day there should be fresh resolution, new strength, and renewed enthusiasm.

Happiness consists not of having, but of being; not of possessing, but of enjoying.

Happiness is paradoxic because it may coexist with trial, sorrow and poverty.

Happiness is the voice of optimism, of faith, of simple, steadfast love.

The basis of happiness is the love of something outside self.

Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.

Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, and bless his name.

For Yahweh is good. His loving kindness endures forever, his faithfulness to all generations.

Yahweh has done great things for us, and we are glad.

In this way only we can ascertain the bent of our own tastes, for it is a general, though not of course an invariable, rule, that we profit little by books which we do not enjoy.

Many readers miss much of the pleasure of reading by forcing themselves to dwell too long continuously on one subject.

Of all the privileges we enjoy in this nineteenth century there is none, perhaps, for which we ought to be more thankful than for the easier access to books.

So delightful indeed are books that we must be careful not to forget other duties for them; in cultivating the mind we must not neglect the body.

Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness.

As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

It has been the happy combination of art and science which has trained us to perceive the beauty which surrounds us.

Education ought not to cease when we leave school; but if well begun there, will continue through life.

Moreover, whatever our occupation or profession in life may be, it is most desirable to create for ourselves some other special interest.

Whatever may be the subject of our choice, we shall find enough, and more than enough, to repay the devotion of a lifetime.