'Ay--though weaker and more infirmly guarded, I believe they are better; for everyone is so much the better, by how much he comes nearer to God; and man in nothing is more like him than in being merciful.

Yet woman is far more merciful than man.

God is said to be love; and I am sure in that quality woman everywhere transcends.' The doctor's serious discourses were a mosaic of old divines and essayists, and Greek and Latin authors, as the writings of the Apostolic Fathers are, in a great measure, a tesselation of holy writ.

He assumed that everybody knew where to find them.

His business was only to repeat the truth wherever gleaned.