Patience And Gentleness Is Power.

The Last Excessive Feelings Of Delight Are Always Grave.

I Entrench Myself In My Books Equally Against Sorrow And The Weather.

May Exalting And Humanizing Thoughts Forever Accompany Me, Making Me Confident Without Pride, And Modest Without Servility.

If You Are Ever At A Loss To Support A Flagging Conversation, Introduce The Subject Of Eating.

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.