Thirst of power and of riches now bear sway, The passion and infirmity of age..

It may be from some moral obliquity in myself, or from some strange disease; but for me, and I should think too for every human being in whose breast….

No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.

Once, once for all, if you would save your heart from breaking, learn this lesson once for all you must cease, in this world, to believe in the etern….

The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it..

Nature is not a partisan, but out of her ample treasue house she produces children in infinite variety, of which she is equally the mother, and disow….

The soul of man is not a thing which comes and goes, is builded and decays like the elemental frame in which it is set to dwell, but a very living fo….

Fear is the parent of cruelty..

Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society..