Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!

We can make ourselves say the kind things that rise in our hearts and tremble on our lips - do the gentle and helpful deeds which we long to do and shrink back from; and little by little, it will grow easier - the love spoken will bring back the answer of love - the kind deed will bring back a kind deed in return.

O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?

the temperaments of children are often as oddly unsuited to parents as if capricious fairies had been filling cradles with changelings.

Can anybody tell what sorrows are locked up with our best affections, or what pain may be associated with every pleasure?

Midnight,--strange mystic hour,--when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin.

People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.