I know of but one garment which the fashionable social life of this country borrows of Christianity; it is that ample garment of charity which covers a multitude of sins--particularly fashionable sins.

The theological systems of men and schools of men are determined always by the character of their ideal of Christ, the central fact of the Christian system.

Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.

I look into your great brown eyes, where love and loyal homage shine, and wonder where the difference lies between your soul and mine!.

if have got my spindle and my distaff ready--my pen and mind--never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax.

No man ever feels the restraint of law so long as he remains within the sphere of his liberty -- a sphere, by the way, always large enough for the full exercise of his powers and the supply of all his legitimate wants.

Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.