Large eyes were admired in Greece, where they still prevail. They are the finest of all when they have the internal look, which is not common. The stag or antelope eye of the Orientals is beautiful and lamping, but is accused of looking skittish and indifferent. "The epithet of 'stag-eyed,'" says Lady Wortley Montgu, speaking of a Turkish love-song, "pleases me extremely; and I think it a very lively image of the fire and indifference in his mistress' eye.

Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.

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.

May exalting and humanizing thoughts forever accompany me, making me confident without pride, and modest without servility.

Patience and gentleness is power.

The rapturuous, wild, and ineffable pleasure of drinking at somebody else's expense

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.