Temperance to be a virtue must be free, and not forced.

Father, mother, child, are the human trinity, whose substance must not be divided nor its persons confounded. As well reconstruct your granite out of the grains it is disintegrated into as society out of the dissolution of wedded love.

Patience is nobler motion than any deed.

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.

Gentleness and kindness will make our homes a paradise upon earth.

Freedom is not caprice but room to enlarge.

Children are marvelously and intuitively correct physiognomists. The youngest of them exhibit this trait.