diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.

Woman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.

The time is come when women must do something more than the "domestic hearth," which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.

The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the aid of Statistics that law in the social sphere can be ascertained and codified, and certain aspects of the character of God thereby revealed. The study of statistics is thus a religious service.

... people have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.

The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.

Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.