Paradoxical as it may seem, God means not only to make us good, but to make us also happy, by sickness, disaster and disappointment..

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

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 brain….

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 ….

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

The soul is one with its faith..

Hope is the parent of Faith..

Every pure thought is a glimpse of God..

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

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

On the attraction between man and woman society is based; but its refined is greater than its gross force, and its weight is like the gravitation of ….

Private sincerity is a public welfare..

Character halts without aid of the imagination, which our classes in Shakespeare and Browning, music and drawing, recognize not only as amusement and….

Freedom is not caprice but room to enlarge..

Patience is nobler motion than any deed..

True men and women are all physicians to make us well..

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

Father, mother, child, are the human trinity, whose substance must not be divided nor its persons confounded. As well reconstruct your granite out of….

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

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 ….