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.
Children are marvelously and intuitively correct physiognomists. The youngest of them exhibit this trait.
Patience is nobler motion than any deed.
The soul is one with its faith.
Beauty is no local deity, like the Greek and Roman gods, but omnipresent.
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.