Vanity in an old man is charming. It is a proof of an open, nature. Eighty winters have not frozen him up, or taught him concealments. In a young person it is simply allowable; we do not expect him to be above it.

The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it. [a predisposition to notice the beautiful, in everything.]

Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!

Character is very much a matter of health.

We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.

Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.