I never did a right thing or abstained from a wrong one from any consideration of reward or punishment.

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

I never did a right thing or abstained from a wrong one from any consideration of reward or punishment.

The highest condition of the religious sentiment is when. . . the worshiper not only sees God everywhere, but sees nothing which is not full of God.

I think that few people are aware how early it is right to respect the modesty of an infant.

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

Public opinion, - a tyrant, sitting in the dark, wrapt up in mystification and vague terrors of obscurity; deriving power no one knows from whom ... - but irresistible in its power to quell thought, to repress action, to silence conviction.