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

If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.

Danger for danger's sake is senseless.

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.

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

Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind.

The last excessive feelings of delight are always grave.