That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving.
Did the mass of men know the actual selfishness and injustice of their rulers, not a government would stand a year. - The world would foment with revolution.
It takes a Newton to forge a Newton. What man could have fabricated a Jesus? None but a Jesus.
Great success is a great temptation.
Every rose is an autograph from the hand of the Almighty God on this world about us. He has inscribed His thoughts in these marvelous hieroglyphics which sense and science have been these many thousand years seeking to understand.
The earnestness of life is the only passport to satisfaction of life.
Such a large sweet fruit is a complete marriage, that it needs a very long summer to ripen in and then a long winter to mellow and season it.
Politics is the science of urgencies.
Applying good sense to religion and religion to life. This is the field in which I design to labor
Love is the piety of the affections.
Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.
Man is the jewel of God, who has created this material world to keep his treasure in.
It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.
To obtain a knowledge of duty, a man is not sent away, outside of himself, to ancient documents; for the only rule of faith a practice, the Word, is very nigh him, even in his heart, and by this word he is to try all documents.
Marriages are best made of dissimilar material.
Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive away nature from the heart of man.
Manly natural religion - it is not joining the Church; it is not to believe in a creed, Hebrew, Protestant, Catholic, Trinitarian, Unitarian, Nothingarian. It is not to keep Sunday idle; to attend meetings; to be wet with water; to read the Bible; to offer prayers in words; to take bread and wine in the meeting house; love a scape-goat Jesus, or any other theological clap-trap.
The Roman Christian mythology (and theology) discourages the vice of licentiousness, and so this is better than the heathen, but it encourages bigotry, hypocrisy, cant, and many another vice which the older Mother of Abominations kept clear from.
The diamond which shines in the Saviour's crown shall burn in unquenched beauty at last on the forehead of every human soul.
Humanity is the sin of God
The joy of heaven will begin as soon as we attain the character of heaven, and do its duties.
He prays best who, not asking God to do man's work, prays penitence, prays resolutions, and then prays deeds--thus supplicating with heart and head and hands.
It seems strange that a butterfly's wing should be woven up so thin and gauzy in the monstrous loom of nature, and be so delicately tipped with fire from such a gross hand, and rainbowed all over in such a storm of thunderous elements. The marvel is that such great forces do such nice work.
Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.
Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe.
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