Poetry is the breath of beauty.

Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.

There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense.

Patience and gentleness is power.

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

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.

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