Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

Looking at God instantly reduces our disposition to dissent from our brother.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy?

The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless: it is not loving, it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.

The religions are obsolete when the reforms do not proceed from them.

Persons are fine things, but they cost so much! for thee I must pay me.

For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training,-religion of character is so apt to be invaded.