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 to make them happy. If you have not
made them happy, you have wronged them; no other good they may get can
make up for that.--_Charles Buxton._
~Christ.~--Our religion sets before us, not the example of a stupid stoic
who had by obstinate principles hardened himself against all sense of
pain beyond the common measures of humanity, but an example of a man
like ourselves, that had a tender sense of the least suffering, and yet
patiently endured the greatest.--_Tillotson._
However consonant to reason his precepts appeared, nothing could have
tempted men to acknowledge him as their God and Saviour but their being
firmly persuaded of the miracles he wrought.--_Addison._