Category: Philosophy & Ethics
I. THE VALLEY OF DIAMONDS II. THE PYRAMID BUILDERS III. THE CRYSTAL LIFE IV. THE CRYSTAL ORDERS V. CRYSTAL VIRTUES VI. CRYSTAL QUARRELS VII. HOME VIRTUES VIII. CRYSTAL CAPRICE IX. CRYSTAL SORROWS X. THE CRYSTAL REST NOTES
L. My dear child, what good? Was any woman, do you suppose, ever the better for possessing diamonds? but how many have been made base, frivolous, and miserable by desiring them?...
3. Chapter 3L. What _I_ mean, is of little consequence. What the Egyptians meant, who called her "Neith,"--or Homer, who called her "Athena,"--or Solomon, who called her by a word which the...
7. Chapter 7L. My dear child, in the daily course and discipline of right life, we must continually and reciprocally submit and surrender in all kind and courteous and affectionate ways: an...
11. Chapter 11L. You may always stand by Form, against Force. To a painter, the essential character of anything is the form of it, and the philosophers cannot touch that. They come and tell y...
5. Chapter 5A quiet talk, in the afternoon, by the sunniest window of the Drawing-room. Present: FLORRIE, ISABEL, MAY, LUCILLA, KATHLEEN, DORA, MARY, and some others, who have saved time fo...
4. Chapter 4L. So am I, Kate. The sky has quite an Irish way with it. But I don't see why Irish girls should also look so dismal. Fancy that you don't want to crystallize yourselves: you di...
1. Chapter 1I. THE VALLEY OF DIAMONDS II. THE PYRAMID BUILDERS III. THE CRYSTAL LIFE IV. THE CRYSTAL ORDERS V. CRYSTAL VIRTUES VI. CRYSTAL QUARRELS VII. HOME VIRTUES VIII. CRYSTAL CAPRICE I...
8. Chapter 8L. Saved from what, my dear? From the abyss of misery and ruin which that false Christianity allowed the whole active world to live in. When it had become the principal amusemen...
9. Chapter 9L. That is to say, I know that people are called saints who are supposed to be better than others: but I don't know how much better they must be, in order to be saints; nor how...
12. Chapter 12L. No, my dear. I mean only that we know, in reality, less than nothing of the dealings of our Maker with our fellow-men; and can only reason or conjecture safely about them, wh...
6. Chapter 6So, something which befalls you may seem a great misfortune,--you meditate over its effects on you personally: and begin to think that it is a chastisement, or a warning, or a t...
10. Chapter 10L. Yes; but not the table's. However, it is not a bad illustration, Dora. When beds of rock are only interrupted by a fissure, but remain at the same level, like the two halves...
13. Chapter 13I WOULD have given the legends of St. Barbara, and St. Thomas, if I had thought it always well for young readers to have everything at once told them which they may wish to know...