God made both tears and laughter, and both for kind purposes; for as laughter enables mirth and surprise to breathe freely, so tears enable sorrow to vent itself patiently. Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair and madness.

The fish is swift, small-needing, vague yet clear, A cold, sweet, silver life, wrapped in round waves.

Write me as one who loves his fellow men.

A friend of ours, who is an admirer of Isaac Walton, was struck, just as we were, with the likeness of the old angler's face to a fish.

There seems a life in hair, though it be dead.

The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius.

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.