"It is not in words explicable, with what divine lines and lights the exercise of godliness and charity will mould and gild the hardest and coldest countenance, nor to what darkness their departure will consign the loveliest. For there is not any virtue the exercise of which, even momentarily, will not impress a new fairness upon the features, neither on them only, but on the whole body the moral and intellectual faculties have operation, for all the movements and gestures, however slight, are different in their modes according to the mind that governs them—and in the gentleness and decision of right feeling follows grace of actions, and through continuance of this, grace of form."—
"It is not in words explicable, with what divine lines and...
From the May 1890 issue of The Christian Science Journal
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