Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.

Hard workers are usually honest; industry lifts them above temptation.

Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison.

Woman's power is over the affections. A beautiful dominion is hers; but she risks its forfeiture when she seeks to extend it.

Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?

Even when we fancy we have grown wiser, it is only, it may be, that new prejudices have displaced old ones.

Bad taste is a species of bad morals.