I love the Irish for their attachment to the faith and for many amiable and noble qualities, but they are deficient in good sense, sound judgement, and manly character.

Wages is a cunning device of the devil, for the benefit of tender consciences, who would retain all the advantages of the slave system, without the expense, trouble, and odium of being slave-holders.

The immortality of the soul is assented to rather than believed, believed rather than lived.

If there must always be a laboring population distinct from proprietors and employers, we regard the slave system as decidedly preferable to the system at wages.

Love is basic of success.

Experience is the byproduct of agony.

I rushed through the door.You had bitten a way for me.

Platonic love is love from the neck up.

Social media has lots of benefits, but compared to Christianity, it tends to group people by interests. Religion puts you with people who have nothing in common except that you're human.

A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port, together with some of the surrounding territory.

Spiritual life is like living water that springs up from the very depths of our own spiritual experience. In spiritual life everyone has to drink from his or her own well.

They also work as half-hours. The stories are all different but include elements of revenge, or the supernatural, or some sort of surprise.

I read your secrets to escape from my own.

The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires.