The beautiful attracts the beautiful.

A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain.

Where the mouth is sweet and the eyes intelligent, there is always the look of beauty, with a right heart.

A friend of ours, who is an admirer of Isaac Walton, was struck, just as we were, with the likeness of the old angler's face to a fish.

When Goethe says that in every human condition foes lie in wait for us, "invincible only by cheerfulness and equanimity," he does not mean that we can at all times be really cheerful, or at a moment's notice; but that the endeavor to look at the better side of things will produce the habit, and that this habit is the surest safeguard against the danger of sudden evils.

Great women belong to history and to self-sacrifice, not to the annals of a stage, however dignified.

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.