Sorrow is knowledge. [ Byron ]

Sorrow teaches virtue. [ A. de Musset ]

Sorrow and an evil life,
Makes soon an old wife. [ Proverb ]

Sorrow comes unsent for. [ Proverb ]

Sorrow makes men sincere. [ Beecher ]

Patience is sorrow's salve. [ Churchill ]

Great sorrows cannot speak. [ John Donne ]

Down, thou climbing sorrow. [ William Shakespeare ]

Sorrow, the great idealizer. [ Lowell ]

Little wealth, little sorrow. [ Proverb ]

Joy surfeited turns to sorrow. [ Proverb ]

There is no day without sorrow. [ Seneca ]

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act that each tomorrow
May find us farther than today. [ Longfellow ]

The more heart, the more sorrow. [ Mme. Necker ]

Days of absence, sad and dreary;
Clothed in sorrow's dark array,
Days of absence, I am weary;
She I love is far away. [ Rousseau ]

Two in distress make sorrow less. [ Proverb ]

A feeling of sadness and longing,
That is not akin to pain,
And resembles sorrow only
As the mist resembles the rain. [ Longfellow ]

Days, that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow. [ Richard Crashaw ]

Weep on; and, as thy sorrows flow,
I'll taste the luxury of woe. [ Moore ]

He the cross who longest bears
Finds his sorrow's bounds are set. [ Winkworth ]

Soon for me the light of day
Shall forever pass away;
Then from sin and sorrow free,
Take me, Lord, to dwell with Thee. [ Doane ]

Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,
And therefore let's be merry. [ G. Wither ]

Better two losses than one sorrow. [ Proverb ]

Social sorrow loses half its pain. [ Johnson ]

Sorrow is good for nothing but sin. [ Proverb ]

When sorrow is asleep, wake it not. [ Proverb ]

Sorrow is a torch that lights life.

Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain,
That has been and may be again. [ Wordsworth ]

Brief is sorrow, and endless is joy. [ Schiller ]

What is glory? what is fame?
The echo of a long-lost name;
A breath, an idle hour's brief talk;
The shadow of an arrant naught;
A flower that blossoms for a day.
Dying next morrow;
A stream that hurries on its way.
Singing of sorrow. [ Motherwell ]

My peace is gone, my heart is heavy. [ Goethe ]

Those laughing orbs, that borrow
From azure skies the light they wear.
Are like heaven - no sorrow
Can float over hues so fair. [ Mrs. Osgood ]

Sorrow ends not when it seemeth done. [ Shakespeare ]

It is held that sorrow makes us wise. [ Tennyson ]

It seldom visits sorrow; when it doth,
It is a comforter. [ William Shakespeare ]

Here let me sit in sorrow for mankind. [ Goldsmith ]

Sorrow makes us very good or very bad. [ George Sand ]

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow. [ Publius Syrus ]

Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul.
Activity will cleanse and brighten it. [ Johnson ]

Smit with exceeding sorrow unto Death. [ Tennyson ]

Fat sorrow is better than lean sorrow. [ Proverb ]

A tender smile, our sorrow's only balm. [ Young ]

Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy. [ Pollok ]

Great sorrow makes sacred the sufferer. [ Owen Meredith ]

Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin. [ John Webster ]

I will instruct my sorrows to be proud. [ William Shakespeare ]

He that sows iniquity shall reap sorrow. [ Proverb ]

Come, and take choice of all my library,
And so beguile thy sorrow. [ William Shakespeare ]

Nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow. [ Bailey ]

Wisely weigh our sorrow with our comfort. [ William Shakespeare ]

Weep no more, lady, weep no more.
Thy sorrow is in vain;
For violets plucked, the sweetest showers
Will never make grow again. [ Percy ]

To love is to make a compact with sorrow. [ Mlle. de Lespinasse ]

He gains enough who gets rid of a sorrow. [ French Proverb ]

Something the heart must have to cherish,
Must love, and joy, and sorrow learn;
Something with passion clasp, or perish,
And in itself to ashes burn. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Forsaken ]

And weep the more because I weep in vain. [ Gray ]

Company in distress make the sorrow less. [ Proverb ]

Love lightens labour and sweetens sorrow. [ Proverb ]

Who hath a scold hath sorrow to his sops. [ Proverb ]

Sorrow's faded form, and solitude behind. [ Gray ]

The darkest day
Lives till tomorrow will have passed away. [ Cowper ]

Melancholy is the convalescence of sorrow. [ Mme. Dufresnoy ]

The path of sorrow, and that path alone.
Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown. [ Cowper ]

One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor. [ William Shakespeare ]

In silence weep, and thy convulsive sorrow
Inward keep. [ Prior ]

Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief. [ William Shakespeare ]

The future hides in it gladness and sorrow. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved. [ Goethe ]

Till sorrow seemed to wear one common face. [ Congreve ]

Sinks my sad soul with sorrow to the grave. [ Homer ]

One day of pleasure is worth two of sorrow. [ Proverb ]

A countenance more in sorrow than in anger. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

Sorrow for past ills, doth restore frail man
To his first innocence. [ Nabbs ]

Grief should be the instructor of the wise;
Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most
Must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth,
The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life. [ Byron ]

Sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye. [ Shakespeare ]

Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal. [ Moore ]

True friends have no solitary joy or sorrow. [ William Ellery Channing ]

All sorrows are bearable, if there is bread. [ Cervantes ]

By sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken. [ Bible ]

Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy. [ Helen Jackson ]

A sorrow shared is but half a trouble,
But a joy that's shared is a joy made double. [ Proverb ]

To live beneath sorrow, one must yield to it. [ Mme. de Stael ]

Alas! I have not words to tell my grief;
To vent my sorrow would be some relief;
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain;
We groan, we cannot speak, in greater pain. [ Dryden ]

Sorrows must die with the joys they outnumber. [ Schiller ]

In those sunk eyes the grief of years I trace.
And sorrow seems acquainted with that face. [ Ickell ]

Silence is the consummate eloquence of sorrow. [ W. Winter ]

Guilt is the source of sorrow; 'tis the fiend,
The avenging fiend that follows us behind
With whips and stings. [ Rowe ]

Canst thou not minster to a mind diseased;
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow;
Raze out the written troubles of the brain;
And, with some sweet oblivious antidote,
Cleanse the foul bosom of that perilous stuff,
Which weighs upon the heart? [ William Shakespeare ]

I have that within which passeth show;
These, but the trappings and the suits of woe. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

He that increaseth knowledge increases sorrow. [ Bible ]

Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows,
Which show like grief itself, but are not so:
For sorrow's eye glazed with blinding tears,
Divides one thing entire to many objects. [ William Shakespeare ]

There is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet. [ Bible ]

Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow. [ Professor Vinet ]

The deeper the sorrow, the less tongue hath it. [ Talmud ]

Happiness is but a dream, and sorrow a reality. [ Voltaire ]

He who has most of heart, knows most of sorrow. [ Bailey ]

Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd,
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow,
Raze out the written troubles of the brain?
And with some sweet oblivious antidote,
Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff
Which weighs upon the heart? [ William Shakespeare, Macbeth ]

It is a sweet sorrow to bury an outrageous wife. [ Proverb ]

Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours,
Makes the night morning, and the noontide night. [ William Shakespeare ]

Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

Love, unrest, and sorrow always journey together. [ Proverb ]

Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths. [ Philip J. Bailey ]

With strength to meet sorrow, and faith to endure. [ Mrs. Osgood ]

Could my griefs speak, the tale would have no end. [ Otway ]

Love hath chased sleep from my enthralled eyes
And made them watchers of mine own heart's sorrow. [ William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act II. Sc. 4 ]

Great souls attract sorrow as mountains do storms. [ Richter ]

How long seems the night to the sorrow that wakes! [ Saurin ]

Care draws on care, woe comforts woe again,
Sorrow breeds sorrow, one grief brings forth twain. [ Dayton ]

Let fate do her worst; there are moments of joy,
Bright dreams of the past, which she cannot destroy;
Which come in the nighttime of sorrow and care,
And bring back the features that joy used to wear. [ Moore ]

Good-night, good-night; parting is such sweet sorrow
That I will say good-night till it be tomorrow. [ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ]

There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm. [ J. H. Vincent ]

What signifies sadness, sir; a man grows lean on it. [ Mackenzie ]

Sorrow is not evil, since it stimulates and purifies. [ Mazzini ]

Impatience dries the blood sooner than age or sorrow. [ Chapin ]

Behold, we live through all things, - famine, thirst,
Bereavement, pain; all grief and misery.
All woe and sorrow; life inflicts its worst
On soul and body, - but we cannot die.
Though we be sick, and tired, and faint, and worn, -
Lo, all things can be borne! [ Elizabeth Akers Allen ]

Women have tears of dissimulation, as well as sorrow. [ Proverb ]

Repentance is heart sorrow, and a clear life ensuing. [ William Shakespeare ]

There is a sweet joy that comes to us through sorrow. [ Spurgeon ]

Serve a great lord, and you will know what sorrow is. [ Spanish Proverb ]

This sorrow's heavenly; It strikes where it doth love. [ William Shakespeare ]

The heart may be broken, and the soul remain unshaken. [ Napoleon ]

Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound. [ Seneca ]

The ground of true sorrow for sin, is the love of God. [ Proverb ]

He that speaks without care shall remember with sorrow. [ Proverb ]

There are some who are born with a sorrow in the heart. [ Lamennais ]

Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted. [ Bible ]

The tears live in an onion that should water this sorrow. [ Shakespeare ]

A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful. [ Horace ]

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression. [ Confucius ]

Ah, if you knew what peace there is in an accepted sorrow! [ Mme. Guyon ]

To the old, sorrow is sorrow; to the young, it is despair. [ George Eliot ]

There is something more awful in happiness than in sorrow. [ Hawthorne ]

Even by means of our sorrows we belong to the eternal plan. [ Wilhelm von Humboldt ]

'Twas a hand
White, delicate, dimpled, warm, languid, and bland
The hand of a woman is often, in youth.
Somewhat rough, somewhat red, somewhat graceless, in truth;
Does its beauty refine, as its pulses grow calm,
Or as sorrow has crossed the life line in the palm? [ Lord Lytton ]

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know. [ Tupper ]

It is with sorrows, as with countries, each man has his own. [ Chateaubriand ]

A small sorrow distracts us, a great one makes us collected. [ Jean Paul ]

Present unhappiness is selfish; past sorrow is compassionate. [ Joseph Roux ]

Woman has a smile for every joy, and a tear for every sorrow. [ Sainte-Foix ]

Women are better sold for sorrow, than bought for repentance. [ Proverb ]

Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good. [ Mrs. Stowe ]

Every tear of sorrow sown by the righteous springs up a pearl. [ Matthew Henry ]

To have gold is to be in fear, and to want it to be in sorrow. [ Johnson ]

Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant. [ Chapin ]

Oh, let us fill our hearts up with the glory of the day
And banish every doubt and care and sorrow far away!
For the world is full of roses and the roses full of dew,
And the dew is full of heavenly love that drips for me and you.
[ James Whitcomb Riley ]

When sorrows come, they come not single spies. But in battalions! [ William Shakespeare ]

The past gives us regret, the present sorrow, and the future fear. [ Mme. de Lambert ]

Sorrow for a husband is like a pain in the elbow, sharp and short. [ Proverb ]

Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid.
Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate. [ Horace Greeley ]

Age and sorrow have the gift of reading the future by the sad past. [ Rev. J. Farrar ]

Since sorrow never comes too late. And happiness too swiftly flies. [ Gray ]

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed. [ Sir W. Temple ]

Every noble crown is, and on earth will ever be, a crown of thorns. [ Carlyle ]

Here I and sorrows sit: Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it. [ William Shakespeare ]

A man exercising no forethought will soon experience present sorrow. [ Confucius ]

Bear and endure; this sorrow will one day prove to be for your good. [ Ovid ]

Whoever has loved knows all that life contains of sorrow and of joy. [ George Sand ]

I do not know of a better cure for sorrow than to pity somebody else. [ H. W. Shaw ]

Heavy sorrow is silent, and the deepest mourning is the most solitary. [ Charles Buxton ]

Joy, being altogether wanting. It doth remember me the more of sorrow. [ William Shakespeare ]

I entrench myself in my books, equally against sorrow and the weather. [ Leigh Hunt ]

Sorrow causes more absence of mind and confusion than so-called levity. [ Richter ]

There is no bitterer grief than a happy remembrance in a day of sorrow. [ A. de Musset ]

Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopped, Doth burn the heart to cinders. [ William Shakespeare ]

Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow. [ Hippocrates ]

Thou makest the man, O Sorrow! Yes, the whole man, as the crucible gold! [ Lamartine ]

Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow! [ William Shakespeare ]

Joy is more divine than sorrow; for joy is bread, and sorrow is medicine. [ Beecher ]

If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared. [ Madame Swetchine ]

The night appears long to those who are overwhelmed with sorrow and grief. [ Apollodorus ]

The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and He addeth no sorrow with it. [ Proverbs x. 22 ]

Sorrows humanize our race; Tears are the showers that fertilize this world. [ Jean Ingelow ]

Dreams cannot picture a world so fair; sorrow and death may not enter there. [ Mrs. Hemans ]

In love, the confidant of a woman's sorrow often becomes the consoler of it.

Sorrow turns the stars into mourners, and every wind of heaven into a dirge. [ Hannay ]

It is those who make the least display of their sorrow who mourn the deepest. [ Chapin ]

How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self. [ Keats ]

In much wisdom is much grief, and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. [ Bible ]

Sorrow is Mount Sinai. If one will, one may go up and talk with God, face to face. [ Beecher ]

Through suffering and sorrow thou hast passed, to show us what a woman true can be. [ Lowell ]

Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite the man that mocks at it, and sets it light. [ William Shakespeare ]

Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear. [ George Eliot ]

It is folly to tear one's hair in sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness. [ Cicero ]

Year chases year, decay pursues decay; still drops some joy from withering life away. [ Dr. Johnson ]

He that would soothe sorrow must not argue on the vanity of the most deceitful hopes. [ Walter Scott ]

Slight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment. [ Colton ]

Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel. [ Young ]

Fear and sorrow are the true characters and inseparable companions of most melancholy. [ Burton ]

Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another's sorrow. [ Aaron Hill ]

Sorrow returned with the dawning of morn, and the voice in my dreaming ear melted away. [ Campbell ]

The best enjoyment is half disappointment to what we mean, or would have, in this world. [ Bailey ]

Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow. [ George Eliot ]

Courage! even sorrows, when once they are vanished, quicken the soul, as rain the valley. [ Salis ]

There are moments of mingled sorrow and tenderness, which hallow the caresses of affection. [ Washington Irving ]

It is easy in adversity to despise death; real fortitude has he who can dare to be wretched. [ Seneca ]

Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without tears. [ Johnson ]

Sorrows are like thunder-clouds, - in the distance they look black, over our heads hardly gray. [ Richter ]

There is not so much comfort in the having of children, as there is sorrow in parting with them. [ Proverb ]

Our hearts must not only be broken with sorrow, but be broken from sin, to constitute repentance. [ Dewey ]

There is more or less sorrow in the word goodbye, and yet how we like to hear some people say it. [ Emerson ]

Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears. [ Johnson ]

Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it break. [ William Shakespeare ]

Whatever crazy sorrow saith, no life that breathes with human breath has ever truly longed for death. [ Tennyson ]

Well the art thou knowest in soft forgetfulness to steep the eyes which sorrow taught to watch and weep. [ Mrs. Tighe ]

We pick our own sorrows out of the joys of other men, and from their sorrows likewise we derive our joys. [ Owen Feltham ]

What, though thou wert rich and of high esteem, dost thou yield to sorrow because of thy loss of fortune? [ Hitopadesa ]

There are in the human heart two cups, one for joy and one for sorrow, which empty themselves alternately. [ Mme. de Maintenon ]

How beautiful is sorrow when it is dressed by virgin innocence! it makes felicity in others seem deformed. [ Sir W. Davenant ]

Poetry is deep pain, and the genuine song issues only from the human heart through which a deep sorrow glows. [ Justin Kerner ]

Enough for me a nook by a hearth of my own, a good book, a friend, a short sleep, unburdened by debt and sorrow. [ Rioja ]

To him whose spirit is bowed down by the weight of piercing sorrow, the day and night are both of the same color. [ Dschami ]

If hearty sorrow be a sufficient ransom for offence, I tender it here; I do as truly suffer, as ever I did commit. [ William Shakespeare ]

It is observed of gold, by an old epigrammatist, that to have it is to be in fear, and to want it, to be in sorrow. [ Johnson ]

The mind profits by the wreck of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrow we have undergone. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that, - to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail. [ George Eliot ]

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence. [ Hume ]

The slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient, if it produces amendment; and the greatest is insufficient, if it does not. [ Colton ]

Poetry is the sister of Sorrow. Every man that suffers and weeps is a poet; every tear is a verse, and every heart a poem. [ Marc Andre ]

It is better to be affected with a true penitent sorrow for sin than to be able to resolve the most difficult cases about it. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

Sorrow, like a heavy ringing bell, once set on ringing, with its own weight goes; then little strength rings out the doleful knell. [ William Shakespeare ]

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. [ Longfellow ]

Laughing cheerfulness throws the light of day on all the paths of life; sorrow is more confusing and distracting than so-called giddiness. [ Jean Paul ]

Sweet pliability of man's spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments! [ Sterne ]

Be sad, good brothers, for, by my faith, it very well becomes you: sorrow so royally in you appears, that I will deeply put the fashion on. [ William Shakespeare ]

Resentment is a union of sorrow with malignity; a combination of a passion which all endeavor to avoid with a passion which all concur to detest. [ Johnson ]

Everything comes and goes. Today in joy, tomorrow in sorrow. We advance, we retreat, we struggle; then, the eternal and profound silence of death! [ Victor Hugo ]

Grief is a species of idleness, and the necessity of attention to the present, preserves us from being lacerated and devoured by sorrow for the past. [ Dr. Johnson ]

We know there oft is found an avarice in grief; and the war eye of sorrow loves to gaze upon its secret hoard of treasured woes, and pine in solitude. [ William Mason ]

Real friends are our greatest joy and our greatest sorrow. It were almost to be wished that all true and faithful friends should expire on the same day. [ Fenelon ]

It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Women are so gentle, so affectionate, so true in sorrow, so untired and untiring! but the leaf withers not sooner, and tropic light fades not more abruptly. [ Barry Cornwall ]

Verily, I swear, it is better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content than to be perked up in a glistering grief, and wear a golden sorrow. [ Shakespeare ]

All was ended now, the hope and the fear and the sorrow, all the aching of heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing, fill the dull, deep pain, and constant anguish of patience. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

God gives us power to bear all the sorrows of His making; but He does not give us power to bear the sorrows of our own making, which the anticipation of sorrow most assuredly is. [ Alexander Maclaren ]

The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. [ Seneca ]

Woman has a smile for every joy, a tear for every sorrow, a consolation for every grief, an excuse for every fault, a prayer for every misfortune, and encouragement for every hope. [ Sainte-Foix ]

Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God, to which Satan is a bitter enemy; for it removes from the heart the weight of sorrow, and the fascination of evil thoughts. [ Luther ]

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [ Bible ]

He that hath so many causes of joy, and so great, is very much in love with sorrow and peevishness, who loses all these pleasures, and chooses to sit down on his little handful of thorns. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Men with gray eyes are generally keen, energetic, and at first cold; but you may depend upon their sympathy with real sorrow. Search the ranks of our benevolent men and you will agree with me. [ Dr. Leask ]

There is a burden of care in getting riches, fear in keeping them, temptation in using them, guilt in abusing them, sorrow in losing them, and a burden of account at last to be given up concerning them. [ Matthew Henry ]

Avoid that which an enemy tells you to do; for if you follow his advice, you will smite your knees with the hand of sorrow. If he shows you a road straight as an arrow, turn from it and go the other way. [ Saadi ]

People seem to think themselves in some ways superior to heaven itself, when they complain of the sorrow and want round about them. And yet it is not the devil for certain who puts pity into their hearts. [ Anne Isabella Thackeray ]

How oft my guardian angel gently cried, Soul, from thy casement look, and thou shalt see How he persists to knock and wait for thee! And, O! how often to that voice of sorrow, Tomorrow we will open, I replied. And when the morrow came I answered still, Tomorrow. [ Tome Burguillos ]

There is a world of science necessary in choosing books. I have known some people in great sorrow fly to a novel, or the last light book in fashion. One might as well take a rose-draught for the plague! Light reading does not do when the heart is really heavy. I am told that Goethe, when he lost his son, took to study a science that was new to him. Ah! Goethe was a physician who knew what he was about. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

The little I have seen of the world teaches me to look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger. When I take the history of one poor heart that has sinned and suffered, and represent to myself the struggles and temptations it has passed through, the brief pulsations of joy, the feverish inquietude of hope and fear, the pressure of want, the desertion of friends. I would fain leave the erring soul of my fellowman with Him from whose hand it came. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

I have very often lamented and hinted my sorrow, in several speculations, that the art of painting is made so little use of to the improvement of manners. When we consider that it places the action of the person represented in the most agreeable aspect imaginable, - that it does not only express the passion or concern as it sits upon him who is drawn, but has under those features the height of the painter's imagination, - what strong images of virtue and humanity might we not expect would be instilled into the mind from the labors of the pencil! [ Steele ]

When I look upon the tombs of the great, every motion of envy dies; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire forsake me: when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tombs of the parents themselves, I reflect how vain it is to grieve for those whom we must quickly follow; when I see kings lying beside those who deposed them, when I behold rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men who divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the frivolous competitions, factions, and debates of mankind. [ Addison ]

Why has the beneficent Creator scattered over the face of the earth such a profusion of beautiful flowers? Why is it that every landscape has its appropriate flowers, every nation its national flowers, every rural home its home flowers? Why do flowers enter and shed their perfume over every scene of life, from the cradle to the grave? Why are flowers made to utter all voices of joy and sorrow in all varying scenes? It is that flowers have in themselves a real and natural significance; they have a positive relation to man; they correspond to actual emotions; they have their mission - a mission of love and mercy; they have their language, and from the remotest ages this language has found its interpreters. [ Henrietta Dumont ]

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. I wasn't myself, I started poor. I hadn't a single moral. There is hardly a man in this house that is poorer than I was then. Yes, I started like that - the world before me, not a moral in the slot. Not even an insurance moral. I can remember the first one I ever got. I can remember the landscape, the weather, the - I can remember how everything looked. It was an old moral, an old second-hand moral, all out of repair, and didn't fit, anyway. But if you are careful with a thing like that, and keep it in a dry place, and save it for processions, and Chautauquas, and World's Fairs, and so on, and disinfect it now and then, and give it a fresh coat of whitewash once in a while, you will be surprised to see how well she will last and how long she will keep sweet, or at least inoffensive. When I got that mouldy old moral, she had stopped growing, because she hadn't any exercise; but I worked her hard, I worked her Sundays and all. Under this cultivation she waxed in might and stature beyond belief, and served me well and was my pride and joy for sixty-three years; then she got to associating with insurance presidents, and lost flesh and character, and was a sorrow to look at and no longer competent for business. She was a great loss to me. Yet not all loss. I sold her - ah, pathetic skeleton, as she was - I sold her to Leopold, the pirate King of Belgium; he sold her to our Metropolitan Museum, and it was very glad to get her, for without a rag on, she stands 57 feet long and 16 feet high, and they think she's a brontosaur. Well, she looks it. They believe it will take nineteen geological periods to breed her match. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]