“So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.”

“If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.”

“Can you cook and sew, make flowers grow, do you understand my pain? Are you willing to risk it all or is your love in vain?”

“Nothing sweetens life like a pleasant disposition.”

“Hopeless of all he dared to hope so long,
The music born within him dies away;
Even the song he loved becomes a pain,
Full-freighted with a yearning all in vain.”

“The life of the husbandman,—a life fed by the bounty of earth and sweetened by the airs of heaven.”

“Of all pains, the greatest pain
Is to love, and love in vain.”

“Friendship! mysterious cement of the soul!
Sweetener of life! and solder of society!”

“A mighty pain to love it is,
And 't is a pain that pain to miss;
But of all pains, the greatest pain
It is to love, but love in vain.”

“The world may be utterly crazy
And life may be labour in vain;
But I'd rather be silly than lazy,
And would not quit life for its pain.”