Fine manners are like personal beauty,--a letter of credit everywhere.
Patience is nobler motion than any deed.
Self-condemnation is God's absolution; and pleading guilty, acquittal at his bar.
True men and women are all physicians to make us well.
Children are marvelously and intuitively correct physiognomists. The youngest of them exhibit this trait.
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.