The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor, and transform trivialities by some original grace or sympathy or humor or affection.
... the hey-day of a woman's life is on the shady side of fifty, when the vital forces heretofore expended in other ways are garnered in the brain, when their thoughts and sentiments flow out in broader channels, when philanthropy takes the place of family selfishness, and when from the depths of poverty and suffering the wail of humanity grows as pathetic to their ears as once was the cry of their own children.
Everyone in the full enjoyment of all the blessings of his life, in his normal condition, feels some individual responsibility forthe poverty of others. When the sympathies are not blunted by any false philosophy, one feels reproached by one's own abundance.
Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.
If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.
John was a very good friend ... a great guy, a patriotic American, ... Our hearts and sympathy and condolences go out to his family.
Judges normally show greater sympathy for people of advanced years and deteriorating health,
Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life.
Public feeling now is apt to side with the persecuted, and our modern martyr is full as likely to be smothered with roses as with coals.
In prayerful sympathy and love. Hold to the old truth -- double distilled.