There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope

Fine minds are seldom fine souls.

The smallest children are nearest to God, as the smallest planets are nearest the sun

There are so many tender and holy emotions, flying about in out inward world, which, like angels, can never assume the body of an outward act; so many rich and lovely flowers spring up which bear no seed, that it is a happiness poetry was invented, w