Ah, my friend, that is the only true church organization, when heads and hearts unite in working for the welfare of the human race!

The civilization of any country may always be measured by the degree of equality between men and women; and society will never come truly into order until there is perfect equality and copartnership between them in every department of human life.

Whoso does not see that genuine life is a battle and a march has poorly read his origin and his destiny.

The old men gazed on them in their loveliness, and turned away with that deep and painful sigh, which the gladness of childhood, and thetransient beauty of youth, are so apt to awaken in the bosom of the aged.

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Work! work! that is my unfailing cure for all troubles.

There was a time when all these things would have passed me by, like the flitting figures of a theatre, sufficient for the amusement of an hour. But now, I have lost the power of looking merely on the surface.