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.

Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.

And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.

The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it; but they are tuned differently in every one of us.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

There is a law of neutralization of forces, which hinders bodies from sinking beyond a certain depth in the sea; but in the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

May is a pious fraud of the almanac.