Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

Let the advocate of animal food, force himself to a decisive experiment on its fitness, and as Plutarch recommends, tear a living lamb with his teeth, and plunging his head into its vitals, slake his thirst with the steaming blood; when fresh from the deed of horror let him revert to the irresistible instincts of nature that would rise in judgment against it, and say, Nature formed me for such work as this. Then, and then only, would he be consistent.

The advocates of literal interpretation have been the most efficacious enemies of those doctrines whose nature they profess to venerate.

The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership.

Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and this must be Our chastisement or recompense.