It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery.

Kings are like stars,-they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose.

Religion pervades intensely the whole frame of society, and is according to the temper of the mind which it inhabits, a passion, a persuasion, an excuse, a refuge; never a check.

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.

Thou hast a voice, great Mountain, to repeal. Large codes of fraud and woe; not understood by all, but which the wise, and great, and good interpret, or make felt, or deeply feel.

Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as scarlet, they are now white as snow: they have been washed in the blood of the mediator and the redeemer, Time.

Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!