The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Adult males are what their moms designed them.

Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might.

That for which Paul lived and died so gloriously; that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified; the end that animated the thousand martyrs and heroes who have followed his steps, was to redeem us from a formal religion, and teach us to seek our well-being in the formation of the soul.

It is curious that Christianity, which is idealism, is sturdily defended by the brokers, and steadily attacked by the idealists.

The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.