To receive a present handsomely and in a right spirit, even when you have none to give in return, is to give one in return.

Those who have lost an infant are never, as it were, without an infant child. Their other children grow up to manhood and womanhood, and suffer all the changes of mortality; but this one alone is rendered an immortal child; for death has arrested it with his kindly harshness, and blessed it into an eternal image of youth and innocence.

I loved my friend for his gentleness, his candor, his good repute, his freedom even from my own livelier manner, his calm and reasonable kindness. It was not any particular talent that attracted me to him, or i anything striking whatsoever. I should say in one word, it was his goodness.

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

Write me as one who loves his fellow men.

This garden has a soul, I know its moods.

Colors are the smiles of nature.