All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished-by fear...be honest with a man and you have no fear. Try to deceive and the relationship deteriorates.

One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.

it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.

The word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is Monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics, science or manners, which it will not bear.

Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.