Fine manners are like personal beauty,--a letter of credit everywhere.
Gentleness and kindness will make our homes a paradise upon earth.
Character halts without aid of the imagination, which our classes in Shakespeare and Browning, music and drawing, recognize not only as amusement and by-play of the mind, but a co-ordinate power. Its work is unhappily styled fiction; for to idealize is to realize.
Beauty is no local deity, like the Greek and Roman gods, but omnipresent.
Every pure thought is a glimpse of God.
Children are marvelously and intuitively correct physiognomists. The youngest of them exhibit this trait.