Fine manners are like personal beauty,--a letter of credit everywhere.
Private sincerity is a public welfare.
The soul is one with its faith.
Self-condemnation is God's absolution; and pleading guilty, acquittal at his bar.
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.
True men and women are all physicians to make us well.