There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may. - Charlotte Brontë

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

A safe, still night; too serene for the companionship of fear. We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us: and it is in the unclouded night sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His Omnipresence.

Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how to express the result of the process in words.