Temperance to be a virtue must be free, and not forced.
Gentleness and kindness will make our homes a paradise upon earth.
Every pure thought is a glimpse of God.
Self-condemnation is God's absolution; and pleading guilty, acquittal at his bar.
Private sincerity is a public welfare.
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.