The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. - Harriet Beecher Stowe

Could I ever have loved you, had I not known you better than you know yourself?

In how many families do you hear the legend that all the goodness and graces of the living are nothing to the peculiar charms of one who is not. It is as if heaven had an especial band of angels, whose office it was to sojourn for a season here, and endear to them the wayward human heart, that they might bear it upward with them in their homewoard flight. When you see that deep, spiritual light in the eye, — -when the little soul reveals itself in words sweeter and wiser than the ordinary words of children, — -hope not to retain that child, for the seal of heaven is on it, and the light of immortality looks out from its eyes.

The Lord gives a good many things twice over, but he don't give ye a mother but once.