Temperance to be a virtue must be free, and not forced.
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.
Hope is the parent of Faith.
Fine manners are like personal beauty,--a letter of credit everywhere.
Self-condemnation is God's absolution; and pleading guilty, acquittal at his bar.
True men and women are all physicians to make us well.