The elect, those who will; the non-elect, those who won't.

No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness -- or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.

A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the mind to notice natural phenomena, and to reason upon them. It would occupy the mind with pure thoughts, and inspire a sweet and gentle enthusiasm; maintain simplicity of taste; and ... unfold in the heart an enlarged, unstraightened, ardent piety.

Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.

Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.

October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month.

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.