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.

What is Love? It is that powerful attraction towards all that we conceive, or fear, or hope beyond ourselves.

There is no real wealth but the labour of man.

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.

Before man can be free, and equal, and truly wise, he must cast aside the chains of habit and superstition; he must strip sensuality of its pomp, and selfishness of its excuses, and contemplate actions and objects as they really are.

A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage.

For there are deeds which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.