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Science is but a mere heap of facts, not a golden chain of truths, if we refuse to link it to the throne of God.

Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by ourselves or not at all.

Pleasures of the mind have this advantage,
they never cloy nor wear themselves out, but increase by employment.

My great panacea for making society at once better and more enjoyable would be to cultivate greater sincerity.

Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual.

Our sex bears the disgrace not only of a great deal of genuine poltroonery, but also of much which is mere affectation.

[Women's] duty is nothing else than the fulfilment [sic] of the whole moral law, the attainment of every human virtue.

It is a woman, and only a woman, - a woman all by herself, if she likes, and without any man to help her, - who can turn a house into a home.

I could discern clearly, even at that early age, the essential difference between people who are kind to dogs and people who really love them.

The nest may be constructed, so far as the sticks go, by the male bird; but only the hen can line it with moss and down!