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.

Freedom is not caprice but room to enlarge.

Private sincerity is a public welfare.

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

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

Every pure thought is a glimpse of God.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

The soul is one with its faith.

Hope is the parent of Faith.