She "had a beautiful soul," as Emerson said of Longfellow.

Poverty disfigured the apple woman's garret, and want made it wretched, nevertheless, God's most beautiful angels hovered over it.

Her life was a blossom event in London's history.
Social reform has felt her influence.

Like a broken vase the perfume of her being will sweeten literature and society a thousand years after we are gone.
The Greek poet says men knew when the goddess came to Thebes because of the blessings she left in her track.

Her footprints were not in the sea, soon obliterated, nor in the snow, quickly melting, but in fields and forests.