The Imagination, Once Awakened, Must And Will

If The National Mind Of America Be Judged Of By Its Legislation, It Is Of A Very High Order ... If The American Nation Be Judged Of By Its Literature, It May Be Pronounced To Have No Mind At All.

Self-denial Is Taught Much Better By Inspiring The Love Of Our Neighbor, Than By The Prohibition Of Innocent Comforts And Pleasures. Spirituality Is Much Better Taught By Making Spiritual Things The Objects Of Supreme Desire, Than By Commanding An Ostentatious Avoidance Of The Enjoyments Of Life.

The Clergy Complain Of The Enormous Spread Of Bold Books, From The Infidel Tract To The Latest Handling Of The Miracle Question.

. . . Is It To Be Understood That The Principles Of The Declaration Of Independence Bear No Relation To Half Of The Human Race?

I Never Did A Right Thing Or Abstained From A Wrong One From Any Consideration Of Reward Or Punishment.