It Is Hard To Tell Which Is

A Soul Occupied With Great Ideas Performs Small Duties.

I Am Sure That No Traveler Seeing Things Through Author Spectacles Can See Them As They Are.

Laws And Customs May Be Creative Of Vice; And Should Be Therefore Perpetually Under Process Of Observation And Correction: But Laws And Customs Cannot Be Creative Of Virtue: They May Encourage And Help To Preserve It; But They Cannot Originate It.

Public Opinion, - A Tyrant, Sitting In The Dark, Wrapt Up In Mystification And Vague Terrors Of Obscurity; Deriving Power No One Knows From Whom ... - But Irresistible In Its Power To Quell Thought, To Repress Action, To Silence Conviction.

My Own Feeling Of Concern Arises From Seeing How Much Moral Injury And Suffering Is Created By The Superstitions Of The Christian Mythology.