The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded.

The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.

The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew: The conscious stone to beauty grew.

An eminent teacher of girls said, "the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.

Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.

Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.

Enthusiasm is the engine of success.