A woman in a single state may be happy and may be miserable; but most happy, most miserable, these are epithets belonging to a wife.

When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.

The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part, in using a word in one sense in all the premises, and in another sense in the conclusion.

And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

How deep a wound to morals and social purity has that accursed article of the celibacy of the clergy been! Even the best and most enlightened men in Romanist countries attach a notion of impurity to the marriage of a clergyman. And can such a feeling be without its effect on the estimation of the wedded life in general? Impossible! and the morals of both sexes in Spain, Italy, France, and. prove it abundantly.

It [is] very unfair to influence a child's mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.