The habit of dwelling on the past, has a narrowing as well as a debilitating influence. Behind us, there is a small, - an almost insignificant measur….

[I] wish that the land-tax went a little more according to situation than it does. 'Tis really ridiculous, how one has to pay five times as much as a….

Self-denial is taught much better by inspiring the love of our neighbor, than by the prohibition of innocent comforts and pleasures. Spirituality is ….

My own feeling of concern arises from seeing how much moral injury and suffering is created by the superstitions of the Christian mythology..

His subject is the "Origin of Species," & not the origin of Organization; & it seems a needless mischief to have opened the latter speculation at all..

There are always principles to be depended upon in this matter of taxation ... Amidst the inconsistent, the bewildering representations offered, a ce….

I want to be a free rover on the breezy common of the universe..

I certainly never believed, more or less, in the "essential doctrines" of Christianity, which represent God as the predestinator of men to sin and pe….

it is a testament to the strength and purity of the democratic sentiment in the country, that the republic has not been overthrown by its newspapers..

Day-thoughts feed nightly dreams; And sorrow tracketh wrong, As echo follows song..

What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than t….

I have no sympathy for those who, under any pressure of circumstances, sacrifice their heart's-love for legal prostitution..

The highest condition of the religious sentiment is when. . . the worshiper not only sees God everywhere, but sees nothing which is not full of God..

In the United States, as elsewhere, there are, and have always been, two parties in politics ... It is remarkable how nearly their positive statement….

A Queen, or a Prime Minister's secretary may be shot at in London, as we know; and probably there is no person eminent in literature or otherwise who….

I certainly had no idea how little faith Christians have in their own faith till I saw how ill their courage and temper can stand any attack on it..

The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class..

[On being deaf:] How much less pain there is in calmly estimating the enjoyments from which we must separate ourselves, of bravely saying, for once a….

It never enters the lady's head that the wet-nurse's baby probably dies..

When once experience taught me that I could work when I chose, and within a quarter of an hour of my determining to do so, I was relieved, in a great….

I never did a right thing or abstained from a wrong one from any consideration of reward or punishment..