The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.

I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.

Well, what I mean is that I shouldn't mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having a husband.

This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don’t you think so?

In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving. Nature does not often say 'See!' to her poor creature at a time when seeing can lead to happy doing; or reply 'Here!' to a body's cry of 'Where?' till the hide-and-seek has become an irksome outworn game.

The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.