If they please and interest the child, they will fulfill their purpose. […] The prophet answered, “If he never recognizes himself.” […] If you can find a dusty old corner in an attic, or if you will look closely along your garden wall, perhaps you will see, if not Arachne herself, at least one of her race, spinning and spinning away at a web, as a punishment for that foolish girl’s vanity. […] If now you should ever hear the phrase “crowned with laurel,” you will know what it means, if only you remember the story of Apollo and Daphne. […] “He shall not die, if I can save him,” was her thought.

If in all this there was nothing but the worship of a more graceful humanity, there may be worships much worse as well as better. […] if thou ever knew’st a father’s love, A mother’s sigh, a sister’s soft caress, If but one human sympathy be left, Pardon, oh! […] Scarcely knowing even if he were a God, or only the name or symbol whereby to represent an immutable and unchangeable law. […] Cassandra, daughter of Priam, consented to her prayer, if Apollo would grant to her the power of divination. […] queen,     If destitute of thee?”