Love gains the shrine when Pity opes the door. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Be prepared for either wisdom through joy, or wisdom through grief. Enough that, looking only through the mechanism by which this mortal world is impelled and improved, you know that cruelty is impossible to wisdom.

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light—every eye looking on finds its own.

There are times when the mirth of others only saddens us, especially the mirth of children with high spirits, that jar on our own quiet mood.