All the walks of literature are infested with mendicants for fame, who attempt to excite our interest by exhibiting all the distortions of their intellects and stripping the covering from all the putrid sores of their feelings.

She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.

Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!

Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one of those immense libraries...and never pass a waking hour without a book before me.

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

Nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.

Man is so inconsistent a creature that it is impossible to reason from his beliefs to his conduct, or from one part of his belief to another.