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

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

I certainly never believed, more or less, in the "essential doctrines" of Christianity, which represent God as the predestinator of men to sin and perdition, and Christ as their rescuer from that doom. I never was more or less behuiled by the trickery of language by which the perdition of man is made out to be justice, and his redemption to be mercy.

The lesson taught us by these kindly commentators on my present experience is that dogmatic faith compels the best minds and hearts to narrowness and insolence.

This noble word [women], spirit-stirring as it passes over English ears, is in America banished, and 'ladies' and 'females' substituted: the one to English taste mawkish and vulgar; the other indistinctive and gross.

It never enters the lady's head that the wet-nurse's baby probably dies.

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