No privileged order ever did see the wrongs of its own victims.

All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example.

I have met few men in my life, worth repeating eight times.

Chauncy Burr ... talks well, possibly better than he thinks. But this is a common failing.

We seem to be pariahs alike in the visible and the invisible world, with no foothold anywhere, though by every principle of government and religion we should have an equal place on this planet.

Let us remember that all reforms are interdependent, and that whatever is done to establish one principle on a solid base, strengthens all.

God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.