Father, mother, child, are the human trinity, whose substance must not be divided nor its persons confounded. As well reconstruct your granite out of the grains it is disintegrated into as society out of the dissolution of wedded love.
Fine manners are like personal beauty,--a letter of credit everywhere.
Every pure thought is a glimpse of God.
Beauty is no local deity, like the Greek and Roman gods, but omnipresent.
Gentleness and kindness will make our homes a paradise upon earth.
Look at nature with science as a lens. The rock swarms, the clod dances; the mineral is but the vegetable stepping down, and the animal an ascending plant; the man, a beast extended; and the angel, a developed human soul.