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.

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

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.

Happy opinions are the wine of the heart.

A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain.

Nature, at all events, humanly speaking, is manifestly very fond of color; for she has made nothing without it. Her skies are blue; her fields, green; her waters vary with her skies; her animals, vegetables, minerals, are all colored. She paints a great any of them in apparently superfluous hues, as if to show the dullest eye how she loves color.

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