"No one but me ever knew all his goodness, no one but himself ever knew how dearly I loved your father. We were more p…"

"Down in the deep, up in the sky, I see them always, far or nigh, And I shall see them till I die — The old familiar f…"

"A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without vision is but drudgery. A vision with a task is the hope of th…"

"And all day long, so close and near, As in a mystic dream I hear Their gentle accents kind and dear — The old familia…"

"Drink, my jolly lads, drink with discerning, Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning; Never was owl more blind tha…"

"It is often easiest to lose those we are fond of and who are fond of us, because in one sense we never can really los…"

"[T]he only real parting is when there is no love left to part from."

"We never know through what divine mysteries of compensation the Great Father of the universe may be carrying out His …"

"When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no mo…"

"O, my son's my son till he gets him a wife, But my daughter's my daughter all her life."