Freedom is not caprice but room to enlarge.
Temperance to be a virtue must be free, and not forced.
Self-condemnation is God's absolution; and pleading guilty, acquittal at his bar.
On the attraction between man and woman society is based; but its refined is greater than its gross force, and its weight is like the gravitation of the globe.
Fine manners are like personal beauty,--a letter of credit everywhere.
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.