Marriage may be polygamic, monogamic, polyandric, complex according to the Oneida pattern, or other, and is true marriage (I do not say perfect marri….

Hide what you have to hide And tell what you have to tell You'll see your problems multiplied If you continually decide To faithfully pursue The poli….

Truth was truth, whether I darkened my eyes to it or not..

Some fearful sights there be that creep By night - I mean that harass sleep; But tenfold more alarming seem these when They brave the day, to brea….

If it be true that God and man are in one image or likeness (and the affirmation that they are so is not unplausible) then it is the duty of man to b….

Faith is from within; it is the outbreaking of human spontaneity; it is force of soul, grandeur of sentiment, magnanimity, generosity, courage. Its f….

Thou slanting rain! Thou Hebe of the Skies, That pours out drink to Earth; thou faithful wife That with moist tears embraces her prone lord. Thou mis….

Reviving Spring, a toast to thy fresh lips! Thy blush is music, and e'en heaven lurks In thy thick perfumed hair that hangs about Thy flowered should….

Society is older than government. But every persisting society implies the existence of government and laws; for a society without government and law….

Some men -- not all men -- see always before them an ideal, a mental picture if you will, of what they ought to be, and are not. Whoso seeks to follo….

How Time doth lash us with sharp pains, Set loose our teeth, snatch wisps of hair, dim eyes -- And finally bend our backs toward earth To find the….

Woman, thou art a river, deep and wide, Of waters soft and sweet: Alas! I've never reached the other side; Though oft I've wet my feet!.

The Ideal is the invisible Sun which is always on the meridian of the soul..

The Federal Government is rendered weak to do wrong, and powerful to do right: for, as soon as it begins to go wrong, it naturally begins to be divid….

Man, having an ideal before him of that which he ought to be, and is not, and acting as though he possessed the character he ought to have, but has n….

Thou Moon! Sun of the Night, Sister mystic of the Day; Look down, pause in thy flight! Calm me with thy aural ray, Enchanting souls to silver sleep. ….

The rule of God is not tyranny, for it does not partake of a political or governmental character -- it is not a rule of authority. God is not a gover….

Faith is reason denying absurdity in the face of the unknown..

Without doubt, matter is unlimited in extent, and, in this sense, infinite; and the forces of Nature mould it into an innumerable number of worlds. W….

Life is a waste of woes, And Death a river deep, That ever onward flows, Troubled, yet asleep..

All men, and all created nature, have been at work, from the beginning of time to this day, to produce the circumstances which now influence our acti….