Genius Hath Electric Power Which Earth Can

The Existence Of Very Pious Feelings, In Conjunction With Intolerance, Cruelty, And Selfish Policy, Has Never Ceased To Surprise And Perplex Those Who Have Viewed It Calmly From A Distance. ... It Is Impossible To Exaggerate The Evil Work Theology Has Done In The World. What Destruction Of The Beautiful Monuments Of Past Ages, What Waste Of Life, What Disturbance Of Domestic And Social Happiness, What Perverted Feelings, What Blighted Hearts, Have Always Marked Its Baneful Progress!

Affectation Is Fond Of Making A Greater Show Than Reality. ... Nature And Truth Have Never Learned To Blow The Trumpet, And Never Will.

A Reformer Is One Who Sets Forth Cheerfully Toward Sure Defeat.

The Laws Of Our Being Are Such That We Must Perform Some Degree Of Use In The World, Whether We Intend It, Or Not; But We Can Deprive Ourselves Of Its Indwelling Joy, By Acting Entirely From The Love Of Self.

Birds And Beasts Have In Fact Our Own Nature, Flattened A Semi-tone.