It takes a man of genius to travel in his own country, in his native village; to make any progress between his door and his gate.

Yet the New Testament treats of man and man's so-called spiritual affairs too exclusively, and is too constantly moral and personal, to alone content me, who am not interested solely in man's religious or moral nature, or in man even.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

Decay and disease are often beautiful, like the pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of consumption.

To live a better life,--this surely can be done.

I should fear the infinite power and inflexible justice of the almighty mortal hardly as yet apotheosized, so wholly masculine, with no sister Juno, no Apollo, no Venus, nor Minerva, to intercede for me, thumoi phileousa te, kedomene te.

Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towardsrecognizing and organizing the rights of man?