Religion Is A Temper, Not A Pursuit.

The Sum And Substance Of Female Education In America, As In England, Is Training Women To Consider Marriage As The Sole Object In Life, And To Pretend That They Do Not Think So.

Laws And Customs May Be Creative Of Vice; And Should Be Therefore Perpetually Under Process Of Observation And Correction: But Laws And Customs Cannot Be Creative Of Virtue: They May Encourage And Help To Preserve It; But They Cannot Originate It.

The Sick-room Becomes The Scene Of Intense Convictions; And Among These, None, It Seems To Me, Is More Distinct And Powerful Than That Of The Permanent Nature Of Good, And The Transient Nature Of Evil.

My Own Feeling Of Concern Arises From Seeing How Much Moral Injury And Suffering Is Created By The Superstitions Of The Christian Mythology.

While Feeling Far Less Injured By Toil Than My Friends Took For Granted I Must Be, I Yet Was Always Aware Of The Strong Probability That My Life Would End As The Lives Of Hard Literary Workers Usually End, - In Paralysis, With Months Or Years Of Imbecility.