off with
cheerishness,--which in a thousand outward and intermitting crosses may
yet be done well, as in this vale of tears.--_Milton._

Such a man, truly wise, creams of nature, leaving the sour and the dregs
for philosophy and reason to lap up.--_Swift._

Be thou like the bird perched upon some frail thing, although he feels
the branch bending beneath him, yet loudly sings, knowing full well that
he has wings.--_Mme. de Gasparin._

~Children.~--With children we must mix gentleness with firmness; they must
not always have their own way, but they must not always be thwarted. If
we never have headaches through rebuking them, we shall have plenty of
heartaches when they grow up. Be obeyed at all costs. If you yield up
your authority once, you will hardly ever get it again.--_Spurgeon._

The smallest children are nearest to God, as the smallest planets are
nearest the sun.--_Richter._

The death of a child occasions a passion of grief and frantic tears,
such as your end, brother reader, will never inspire.--_Thackeray._

Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of
outlived sorrow.--_George Eliot._

Children are excellent physiognomists and soon discover their real
friends. Luttrell calls them all lunatics, and so in fact they are. What
is childhood but a series of happy delusions?--_Sydney Smith._

The clew of our destiny, wander where we will, lies at the cradle
foot.--_Richter._

A house is never perfectly furnished for enjoyment unless there is a
child in it rising three years old, and a kitten rising three
weeks.--_Southey._

Children have more need of models than of critics.--_Joubert._

The bearing and training of a child is woman's wisdom.--_Tennyson._

One of the greatest pleasures of childhood is found in the mysteries
which it hides from the skepticism of the elders, and works up into
small mythologies of its own.--_Holmes._

Do not shorten the beautiful veil of mist covering childhood's futurity,
by too hastily drawing away; but permit that joy to be of early
commencement and of long duration, which lights up life so beautifully.
The longer the morning dew remains hanging in the blossoms of flowers,
the more beautiful the day.--_Richter._

Where children are there is the golden age.--_Novalis._

In the man whose childhood has known caresses there is always a fibre of
memory that can be touched to gentle issues.--_George Eliot._

The first duty towards children is t