Is it not meningitis?

The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.

The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

I don't worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.

But, like all happiness, it did not last long.

Simple, sincere people seldom speak much of their piety; it shows itself in acts rather than words, and has more influence than homilies or protestations.

I do like men who come out frankly and own that they are not gods.