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.

. . . is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race?

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.

Authorship has never been with me a matter of choice. I have not done it for amusement, or for money, or for fame, or for any reason but because I could not help it.

As the astronomer rejoices in new knowledge which compels him to give up the dignity of our globe as the centre, the pride, and even the final cause of the universe, so do those who have escaped from the Christian mythology enjoy their release from the superstition which fails to make them happy, fails to make them good, fails to make them wise, and has become as great an obstacle in the way of progress as the prior mythologies which it took the place of two thousand years ago.

Goodness and simplicity are indissolubly united.-The bad are the most sophisticated, all the world over, and the good the least.