The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work

A Queen, or a Prime Minister's secretary may be shot at in London, as we know; and probably there is no person eminent in literature or otherwise who has not been the object of some infirm brain or another. But in America the evil is sadly common.

We do not believe in immortality because we can't prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

Moral excellence has no regard to classes and professions.

While feeling far less injured by toil than my friends took for granted I must be, I yet was always aware of the strong probability that my life would end as the lives of hard literary workers usually end, - in paralysis, with months or years of imbecility.

But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?

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