Jean Ingelow

“A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.”

“Work is a great and noble calling.”

“Ah, yet, when all is thought and said, the heart still overrules the head.”

“Man's life is nought, a bit of thistle-down, / Which every wind doth blow about the town.”

“I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.”

“It is a great thing to be a child.”

“An empty cottage is a greater mystery than a haunted one.”

“Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by.”

“If I had a little child, I would not live in a house till I had planted a tree.”

“Play, and make-believe. The world is yours for a while.”

“Contentment is a sleepy, idle, and languid thing, which allures us to rest, when we are most in need of labor.”

“I marked all the hours, and how they sped as if they had wings.”

“Sing on! for songs can make us young, / When cloudy shadows round us clung.”