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.

Self-condemnation is God's absolution and pleading guilty, acquittal at his bar.

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

Hope is the parent of Faith.

Private sincerity is a public welfare.

Freedom is not caprice but room to enlarge.

Fine manners are like personal beauty,--a letter of credit everywhere.

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.

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

We must learn that competence is better than extravagance, that worth is better than wealth, that the golden calf we have worshiped has no more brains than that one of old which the Hebrews worshiped. So beware of money and of money's worth as the supreme passion of the mind. Beware of the craving for enormous acquisition.

The soul is one with its faith.

Religion is indeed woman's panoply no one who wishes her happiness would divest her of it no one who appreciates her virtues would weaken her best security.

Every pure thought is a glimpse of God.