Tis a little thing To give a cup of water yet its draught of cool refreshment, drain'd by fever'd lips, May give a shock of pleasure to the frame More exquisite than when nectarean juice Renews the life of joy in happiest hours.

In ourselvesIn our own honest hearts and chainless handsWill be our safeguard

Sympathy is the first great lesson which man should learn. It will be ill for him if he proceeds no farther if his emotions are but excited to roll back on his heart, and to be fostered in luxurious quiet. But unless he learns to feel for things in which he has no personal interest, he can achieve nothing generous or noble.

The mysteries of Nature and of humanity are not lessened, but increased, by the discoveries of philosophic skill.

It is a little thing to speak a phrase of common comfort, which by daily use has almost lost its sense yet on the ear of him who thought to die unmourned it will fall like choicest music.