SOMETIMES,
looking deep into the eyes of a child,
you are conscious of meeting
a glance of full wisdom.
The child has known nothing yet
but love and beauty--
all this piled-up world knowledge
you have acquired
is unguessed at by him.
And yet you meet this wonderful look
that tells you in a moment more
than all the years of experience
have seemed to teach.

Hildegarde Hawthorne

HAPPINESS,
in this world,
when it comes,
comes incidentally.
Make it the object of pursuit,
and it leads us on a wild-goose chase,
and is never attained.
Follow some other object,
and very possibly we may find that
we have caught happiness
without dreaming of it.

Nathaniel Hawthorne