We lose in depth of expression when we go to inferior animals for comparisons with human beauty. Homer calls Juno ox-eyed; and the epithet suits well with the eyes of that goddess, because she may be supposed, with all her beauty, to want a certain humanity. Her large eyes look at you with a royal indifference.

This garden has a soul, I know its moods.

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

Christmas is the glorious time of great Too-Much.

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

Little eyes must be good-tempered or they are ruined. They have no other resource. But this will beautify them enough. They are made for laughing, and, should do their duty.

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