How anyone can remain a Catholic - I mean who has ever been aroused to think, and is not biased by the partialities of childish years - after seeing Catholicism here in Italy I cannot conceive.

The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.

... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.

How many persons must there be who cannot worship alone since they are content with so little.

Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

Not one man, in the million, shall I say? no, not in the hundred million, can rise above the belief that woman was made for man.