Part of our good consists in the endeavor to do sorrows away, and in the power to sustain them when the endeavor fails,--to bear them nobly, and thus help others to bear them as well.

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

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

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.

Some tears belong to us because we are unfortunate; others, because we are humane; many, because we are mortal. But most are caused by our being unwise. It is these last only that of necessity produce more.

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Improvement is nature.