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

No mistake is more to be deplored than the conception that a system of morals and religion should derive any portion of its authority either from the circumstance of its novelty or its antiquity, that it should be judged excellent, not because it is reasonable or true, but because no person has ever thought of it before, or because it has been thought of from the beginning of time.

I arise from dreams of thee, And a spirit in my feet Has led me- who knows how? To thy chamber-window, Sweet!

It is true that the reluctance to abstain from animal food, in those who have been long accustomed to its stimulus, is so great in some persons of weak minds, as to be scarcely overcome; but this is far from bringing any argument in its favour

Whatever strengthens and purifies the affections, enlarges the imagination, and adds spirit to sense, is useful.

The soul's joy lies in doing.

The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow.