freely in their word and gesture a beautiful form is better than a beautiful face a beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures it is the finest of the fine arts a man is but a little thing in the midst of the objects of nature yet by the moral quality from his countenance he may all considerations of magnitude and in his manners equal the majesty of the world i have seen an individual whose manners though wholly within the of elegant society were manners never learned there but were original and commanding and held out protection and prosperity one who did not need the aid of a court suit but carried the holiday in his eye who the fancy by flinging wide the doors of ne w modes of existence who shook off the of etiquette with happy spirited bearing good natured and free as robin hood yet with the port of an emperor � if need be calm serious and fit to stand the gaze of millions the open air and the fields the street and public chambers are the places where man his will let him yield or divide the at the door of the house woman with her instinct of behavior instantly in man a love of trifles any coldness or or in short any want of that large flowing and which is indispensable as an exterior in the hall our american have been friendly to her arid at this moment i esteem it a chief felicity of this country that it in women a certain awkward consciousness of inferiority in the men may give rise to the new chivalry in behalf of woman s rights certainly let her be as much better placed in the laws and in social forms as the most zealous can ask but i confide so entirely in her inspiring and musical nature that i believe only herself can show us how she shall be essay ly served the wonderful generosity of her ments raises her at times into and regions and the pictures of or and by the firmness with which she her upward path she the that another road exists than that which their feet know but besides those who make good in our imagination the place of and of are there not women who fill our with wine and roses to the brim so that the wine over and fills the house with perfume who inspire us with courtesy who our tongues and we speak who our eyes and we see we say things we never thought to have said for once our walls of habit reserve vanished and left us at lai e we were children playing with children in a wide field of flowers steep us we cried in these influences for days for weeks and we shall be sunny poets and will write out in many colored words the romance that you are was it or that said of his she was an force and astonished me by her amount of life when i saw her day after day every instant joy and grace on all around her she was a powerful to reconcile all persons into one society like air or water an element of such a great range of that manners it readily with a thousand where she is present all others will be more than they are wont she was a and whole so that whatsoever she did became her she had too much sympathy and desire to please than that you could say her manners were marked with dignity yet no princess could her clear and erect on each occasion she did not study the grammar nor the books of the seven poets but all the poems of the seven seemed to be written upon her for though the bias of her nature was not to thought but to sympathy yet was she so perfect in her own nature as to meet intellectual persons by the fulness of her heart warming them by her sentiments believing as she did that by dealing nobly with all all would show themselves noble i know that this pile of chivalry or fashion which seems so fair and picturesque ta those who look at the contemporary facts for science or for entertainment is not equally pleasant to all spectators the constitution of our society it a giant s castle to the ambitious youth who have not found their names in its golden book and whom it has excluded from its honors and privileges they have yet to learn that its seeming grandeur is shadowy and relative it is ly great by their allowance its gates will fly open at the approach of their courage and virtue for the present distress however of those who are to from the of this caprice there are easy to remove your residence a couple of miles or at most four will commonly relieve the most extreme for the advantages which fashion are plants which in very confined in a few streets namely out of this they go for nothing are of no use in the farm in the forest ih the market in war in the society in the literary or scientific circle at sea in friendship in the heaven of thought or virtue but we have lingered long enough in these painted courts the worth of the thing signified must our taste for the emblem every thing that is called fashion and courtesy itself before the cause and fountain of honor creator of titles and namely the heart of love this is the royal blood this the fire which in all countries and will work after its kind and conquer and all that approaches it this gives new to every fact this the rich suffering grandeur but its own what is rich are you rich enough to help anybody to the and the eccentric rich enough to 