Tears and sorrows and losses are a part of what must be experienced in this present state of life: some for our manifest good, and ail, therefore, it is trusted, for our good concealed;--for our final and greatest good.

Little eyes must be good-tempered or they are ruined. They have no other resource. But this will beautify them enough. They are made for laughing, and, should do their duty.

Patience and gentleness is power.

When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.

If you are melancholy for the first time, you will find, upon a little inquiry, that others have been melancholy many times, and yet are cheerful now.

There are two worlds: The world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world we feel with our hearts and imaginations.

Poetry is the breath of beauty.