Misfortune Is Never Mournful To The Soul

Reverence Is The Highest Quality Of Man's Nature; And That Individual, Or Nation, Which Has It Slightly Developed, Is So Far Unfortunate. It Is A Strong Spiritual Instinct, And Seeks To Form Channels For Itself Where None Exists; Thus Americans, In The Dearth Of Other Objects To Worship, Fall To Worshiping Themselves.

The Existence Of Very Pious Feelings, In Conjunction With Intolerance, Cruelty, And Selfish Policy, Has Never Ceased To Surprise And Perplex Those Who Have Viewed It Calmly From A Distance. ... It Is Impossible To Exaggerate The Evil Work Theology Has Done In The World. What Destruction Of The Beautiful Monuments Of Past Ages, What Waste Of Life, What Disturbance Of Domestic And Social Happiness, What Perverted Feelings, What Blighted Hearts, Have Always Marked Its Baneful Progress!

Thy Treasures Of Gold Are Dim With The Blood Of The Hearts Thou Hast Sold; Thy Home May Be Lovely, But Round It I Hear The Crack Of The Whip, And The Footsteps Of Fear.

That A Majority Of Women Do Not Wish For Any Important Change In Their Social And Civil Condition, Merely Proves That They Are The Unreflecting Slaves Of Custom.

The Rarest Attainment Is To Grow Old Happily And Gracefully.