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.

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

Beauty is no local deity, like the Greek and Roman gods, but omnipresent.

Hope is the parent of Faith.

The soul is one with its faith.

Private sincerity is a public welfare.

Every pure thought is a glimpse of God.