For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I think.

Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.

But I am chained to Time, and cannot thence depart!

Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith.

Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

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.