Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

There was warmth and affection in his gaze. A tender caring that made her want to stretch toward him like a sunflower reaching toward the sun's heat.

A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.

Wish and learn to smooth away the surly wrinkles, to raise your lids frankly, and change the fiends to confident, innocent angels, suspecting and doubting nothing, and always seeing friends where they are not sure of foes-- Don't get the expression of a vicious cur that appears to know the kicks it gets are its desert, and yet, hates all the world, as well as the kicker, for what it suffers.

I know, by instinct, his reserve springs from an aversion to showy displays of feeling—to manifestations of mutual kindliness. He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to be loved or hated again.

An old dog, even more than an old spouse, always feels like doing what you feel like doing.

bottle and poured a spoonful. She held one to his

With a smile that glow'd Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue.

Obviously someone will! The issue is rather, will the most sympathetic person get there first?

Envy always follows in the track of virtue: as Horace says, it is ever the mountain top that is smitten by the lightning.

Patience is the decision to move at someone else's pace rather than pressure him or her to match yours.

Patience is simply a way of putting the other person first. Patience is an expression of submission.