"I praise Thee while my days go on; I love Thee while my days go on! Through dark and dearth, through fire and frost, With emptied arms and treasure lost, I thank Thee while my days go on."

"Efforts to be permanently useful must be uniformly joyous, a spirit all sunshine, graceful from very gladness, beautiful because bright."

"You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make earnest effort to confer that pleasure on others? You will find half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy."

"Corn shall make the young men cheerful."

"A cheerful life is what the Muses love, A soaring spirit is their prime delight."

"He makes a July's day short as December, And with his varying childness cures in me Thoughts that would thick my blood."

"Look cheerfully upon me. Here, love; thou seest how dilgent I am."

"Had she been light, like you, Of such a merry, nimble, stirring spirit, She might ha' been a grandam ere she died; And so may you; for a light heart lives long."

"Leve fit quod bene fertur onus."

"It is good To lengthen to the last a sunny mood."

"Cheer up, the worst is yet to come."

"A cheerful look makes a dish a feast."

"Cheerful at morn he wakes from short repose, Breathes the keen air, and carols as he goes."

"Cheered up himself with ends of verse And sayings of philosophers."

"A cheerful temper joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful and wit good-natured. It will lighten sickness, poverty and affliction, convert ignorance into an amiable simplicity, and render deformity itself agreeable."

"I have always preferred Chearfulness to Mirth. The latter, I consider as an Act, the former as an Habit of the Mind. Mirth is short and transient. Cheerfulness fixed and permanent."

"Be of good cheer."

"A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones."

"Between levity and cheerfulness there is a wide distinction; and the mind which is most open to levity is frequently a stranger to cheerfulness."

"Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others as by self-examination thoroughly to know our own."

"I have more confidence in the charity which begins in the home and diverges into a large humanity, than in the worldwide philanthropy which begins at the outside of our horizon to converge into egotism."

"There is no dearth of charity in the world in giving, but there is comparatively little exercised in thinking and speaking."

"Earth has not a spectacle more glorious or more fair to show than this — love tolerating intolerance; charity covering, as with a vail, even the sin of the lack of charity."

"An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves."

"We may not substitute charity for godliness; but there is room for the Divine love in the heart which has been touched by the human."

"A life in any sphere that is the expression and outflow of an honest, earnest, loving heart, taking counsel only of God and itself, will be certain to be a life of beneficence in the best possible direction."

"If thou neglectest thy love to thy neighbor, in vain thou professest thy love to God; for by thy love to God, the love to thy neighbor is begotten, and by the love to thy neighbor, thy love to God is nourished."

"Why should not our solemn duties, and our hastening end, render us so united, that personal contention would be impossible, in a general sympathy quickened by the breath of a forbearing and pitying charity?"

"Charity is that rational and constant affection, which makes us sacrifice ourselves to the human race, as if we were united with it, so as to form one individual, partaking equally in its adversity and prosperity."

"Charity, like the sun, brightens every object on which it shines."

"Charity — gently to hear, kindly to judge."

"Let them learn first to show piety at home."

"Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity."

"Our charity begins at home, And mostly ends where it begins."

"Soft peace she brings, wherever she arrives: She builds our quiet, as she forms our lives: Lays the rough paths of peevish Nature even, And opens in each heart a little Heaven."

"Charity shall cover the multitude of sins."

"Charité bien ordonné commence par soy meme."

"All crush'd and stone-cast in behaviour, She stood as a marble would stand, Then the Saviour bent down, and the Saviour In silence wrote on in the sand."

"In necessasariis, unitas; In dubiis, libertas; in omnibus, caritas."

"He is truly great who hath a great charity."

"In silence, * * * Steals on soft-handed Charity, Tempering her gifts, that seem so free, By time and place, Till not a woe the bleak world see, But finds her grace."

"Meek and lowly, pure and holy, Chief among the "blessed three.""

"When your own courtyard thirsts, do not pour the water abroad."

"True Charity, a plant divinely nurs'd."

"And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity."

"Charity suffereth long and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up."

"Though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing."

"Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal."

"No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity."