Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church.

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.

Union is only possible to those who are units. To be fit for relations in time, souls, whether of man or woman, must be able to do without them in the spirit.

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. As far as an amiable disposition and powers of entertainment make you so, it is a happiness; but if there is one grain of plausibility, it is poison.

there is such a rebound from parental influence that it generally seems that the child makes use of the directions given by the parent only to avoid the prescribed path.