The doctrine of a material hell in its effect was to chill and deaden the sympathies, predispose men to inflict suffering, and to retard the march of….

It had been boldly predicted by some of the early Christians that the conversion of the world would lead to the establishment of perpetual peace. In ….

The period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human mind. . . . The spirit that shrinks from en….

The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous….

There is no wild beast so ferocious as Christians who differ concerning their faith..

Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked..

The Augustinian doctrine of the damnation of unbaptized infants and the Calvinistic doctrine of reprobation . . . surpass in atrocity any tenets that….

There is no possible line of conduct which has at some time and place been condemned, and which has not at some other time and place been enjoined as….

The morals of men are more governed by their pursuits than by their opinions. A type of virtue is first formed by circumstances, and men afterwards m….

Physical science has taught us to associate Deity with the normal rather than with the abnormal..

The simple record of these three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and soften mankind than all the discourses of philosophers an….

Abortion... was probably regarded by the average Roman of the later days of Paganism much as Englishmen in the last century regarded convivial excess….

Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and to form the tastes which are most….

In proportion to its power, Protestantism has been as persecuting as Catholicism..

One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fo….

When the Church obtained the direction of the civil power, she soon modified or abandoned the tolerant maxims she had formerly inculcated; and, in th….

The moral duty to be expected in different ages is not a unity of standard, or of acts, but a unity of tendency ... At one time the benevolent affect….

Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit..

Routine shortens and variety lengthens time, and it is therefore in the power of men to do something to regulate its pace. A life with many landmarks….

There are times in the lives of most of us, when we would have given all the world to be as we were but yesterday, though that yesterday had passed o….

Highly graduate taxation realizes most completely the supreme danger of democracy, creating a state of things in which one class imposes on another b….