Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character.

It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.

All understanding begins in wonder!

I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.

Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.

As our inclinations, so our opinions.

Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?