Just so gentle, yet powerful, is the moral atmosphere of a good man as it presses upon and shapes his kind.

He who hath made man in his own image hath endowed him with this forceful presence.

Ten-talent men, eminent in knowledge and refinement, eminent in art and wealth, do, indeed, illustrate this.
Proof also comes from obscurity, as pearls from homely oyster shells.
Working among the poor of London, an English author searched out the life-career of an apple woman.

Her history makes the story of kings and queens contemptible.

Events had appointed her to poverty, hunger, cold and two rooms in a tenement.