Mirth itself is too often but melancholy in disguise.

With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks.

Patience and gentleness is power.

The more sensible a woman is, supposing her not to be masculine, the more attractive she is in her proportionate power to entertain.

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.

It is our daily duty to consider that in all circumstances of life, pleasurable, painful, or otherwise, the conduct of others, especially of those in the same house; and that, as life is made up, for the most part, not of great occasions, but of small everyday moments, it is the giving to those moments their greatest amount of peace, pleasantness, and security, that contributes most to the sum of human good. Be peaceable. Be cheerful. Be true.

Light is, perhaps, the most wonderful of all visible things.