warning, now chiding, now blessing, and always safely
guarding. Love lightens labor, shortens distance and quickens time.
Love teaches us to forgive, helps us to forget and whitens the memory
of all things. Love paints every hope, brightens every scene and
maketh beautiful whatsoever it shines on. Love is wisdom. Love is
high. Love is holy. Love is God. Love gloweth in the hearts of the
angels, wreathes the smiles on their brows and melts the kisses on
their lips. Love is the light of the beautiful beyond.

GEMS OF BEAUTY

More hopeful than all wisdom is one draught of human pity that will not
forsake us.

Laughing is one of the products of civilization. In the uncivilized
tribes laughter is entirely unknown.

Let him who neglects to raise the fallen fear lest, when he falls, no
one will stretch out his hand to lift him up.

Time is a species of wealth which it is impossible for us to hoard, but
which we may spend to good advantage.

Character is the eternal temple that each one begins to rear, yet death
can only complete it. The finer the architecture, the more fit for the
indwelling of angels.

It is only by labor that thought can be made healthy, and only by
thought that labor can be made happy; and the two can not be separated
with impunity.--_John Ruskin_.

Don't moralize to a man who is on his back. Help him up, set him
firmly on his feet, and then give him advice and means.

There is a pleasure in contemplating good; there is a greater pleasure
in receiving good; but the greatest pleasure of all is in doing good,
which comprehends the rest.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning--an endeavor
to navigate a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have to run, but
without observation of the heavenly bodies.

Most people keep too strong a hold of their personality to be able to
forget themselves in their subject; they carry an unacknowledged
self-consciousness along with them. If to be single-minded is to have
an undivided interest in things, they are not single-minded.

Real affection is independent. A woman may passionately love a man who
does not care for her, and men have gone mad for the sake of women who
were indifferent to them. That affection which survives coldness or
even contempt on the part of the subject is a stronger proof of its
strength than jealousy, however well founded.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals, and to have a
defer