Destruction, violence, ravages, murder, are perpetrated by statute law.

The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel.

The woman who cannot tell a lie in defense of her husband, is unworthy of the name of wife.

Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child-on a field-mouse instead of a human soul.

Talent does things tolerably well; genius does then intolerably better

When you once attribute effects to the will of a personal God, you have let in a lot of little gods and evils - then sprites, fairies, dryads, naiads, witches, ghosts and goblins, for your imagination is reeling, riotous, drunk, afloat on the flotsam of superstition. What you know then doesn't count. You just believe, and the more your believe the more do you plume yourself that fear and faith are superior to science and seeing.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.