Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.

'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive.

Character wants room; must not be crowded on by persons, nor be judged from glimpses got in the press of affairs, or on few occasions. It needs perspective, as a great building.

Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows.

Earth laughs in flowers.

Things refuse to be mismanaged for long.