The Highest Condition Of The Religious Sentiment

Even If Their Outward Fortunes Could Be Absolutely Equalized, There Would Be, From Individual Constitution Alone, An Aristocracy And A Democracy In Every Land. The Fearful By Nature Would Compose An Aristocracy, The Hopeful By Nature A Democracy, Were All Other Causes Of Divergence Done Away.

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.

The Last Thing It [government] Ought To Do Is To Ground Its Proceedings On The Ignorance Of The People, - To Yield Them That Which They Will Hereafter Despise The Donors For Granting Them.

Marriage ... Is Still The Imperfect Institution It Must Remain While Women Continue To Be Ill-educated, Passive, And Subservient.

Public Opinion, - A Tyrant, Sitting In The Dark, Wrapt Up In Mystification And Vague Terrors Of Obscurity; Deriving Power No One Knows From Whom ... - But Irresistible In Its Power To Quell Thought, To Repress Action, To Silence Conviction.