Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.

All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul.

Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.

Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.

To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.

Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not.

In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing.