Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere

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.

I am grown by sympathy a little eager and sentimental, but leave me alone, and I should relish every hour and what it brought me, the pot-luck of the day, as heartily as the oldest gossip in the bar-room.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

New York is a sucked orange.

Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law.

It is handsomer to remain in the establishment better than the establishment, and conduct that in the best manner, than to make asally against evil by some single improvement, without supporting it by a total regeneration.