In after-life you may have friends--fond, dear friends; but never will you have again the inexpressible love and gentleness lavished upon you which none but a mother bestows.

The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belonged to intellectual superiority.

Every sect clamors for toleration when it is down.

A kind of semi-Solomon, half-knowing everything, from the cedar to the hyssop.

A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.

We hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of this haughty, vigilant, resolute, sagacious blue-stocking, half Mithridates and half Trissotin, bearing up against a world in arms, with an ounce of poison in one pocket and a quire of bad verses in the other.

Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things.