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… — C. A. Bartol Copy Share Image
Paradoxical as it may seem, God means not only to make us good, but to make us also happy, by sickness, disaster and disappointment. — C. A. Bartol Copy Share Image
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… — C. A. Bartol Copy Share Image
We must learn that competence is better than extravagance, that worth is better than wealth, that the golden calf we have worshiped has no… — C. A. Bartol Copy Share Image
Fine manners are like personal beauty,--a letter of credit everywhere. — C. A. Bartol Copy Share Image
Look at nature with science as a lens. The rock swarms, the clod dances; the mineral is but the vegetable stepping down, and the… — C. A. Bartol Copy Share Image
Children are marvelously and intuitively correct physiognomists. The youngest of them exhibit this trait. — C. A. Bartol Copy Share Image
Father, mother, child, are the human trinity, whose substance must not be divided nor its persons confounded. As well reconstruct your granite out of… — C. A. Bartol Copy Share Image
On the attraction between man and woman society is based; but its refined is greater than its gross force, and its weight is like… — C. A. Bartol Copy Share Image
