Religion is indeed woman's panoply; no one who wishes her happiness would divest her of it; no one who appreciates her virtues would weaken her best security.

True men and women are all physicians to make us well.

Paradoxical as it may seem, God means not only to make us good, but to make us also happy, by sickness, disaster and disappointment.

Children are marvelously and intuitively correct physiognomists. The youngest of them exhibit this trait.

Hope is the parent of Faith.

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.