When believers and unbelievers live in the same manner - I distrust the religion.

Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.

God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation.

There is a crack in everything God has made

The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects. Gladly we would anchor, but the anchorageis quicksand.

The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its whole constitution. It persecutes a principle; it would whip a right; it would tar and feather justice, by inflicting fire and outrage upon the houses and persons of those who have these. It resembles the prank of boys, who run with fire-engines to put out the ruddy aurora streaming to the stars.