I like to read about Moses best, in th' Old Testament. He carried a hard business well through, and died when other folks were going to reap the fruits; a man must have courage to look after his life so, and think what'll come f it after he's dead and gone.

Leisure is gone,--gone where the spinning-wheels are gone, and the pack-horses, and the slow wagons, and the peddlers, who brought bargains to the door on sunny afternoons.

If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.

'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.

It is time the clergy are told that thinking men, after a close examination of that doctrine, pronounce it to be subversive of true moral development and, therefore, positively noxious.

The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.

... the fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading.