Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.

It is remarkable, that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society. The thoughts alone suffice them, without investing itself in the flesh and blood of action.

We do ourselves wrong, and too meanly estimate the holiness above us, when we deem that any act or enjoyment good in itself, is not good to do religiously.

Families are always rising and falling in America.

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.

The Christian faith is a grand cathedral with divinely pictured windows.