I have no sympathy for those who, under any pressure of circumstances, sacrifice their heart's-love for legal prostitution.

It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring.

There is no death to those who perfectly love-only disappearance, which in time may be borne.

Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.

The clergy complain of the enormous spread of bold books, from the infidel tract to the latest handling of the miracle question.

My own feeling of concern arises from seeing how much moral injury and suffering is created by the superstitions of the Christian mythology.

The instruction furnished is not good enough for the youth of such a country ... There is not even any systematic instruction given on political morals: an enormous deficiency in a republic.