Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.

'Tis very strange Men should be so fond of being thought wickeder than they are.

From this amphibious ill-born mob began That vain, ill-natured thing, an Englishman.

The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.

But a meek humble Man of modest Sense, Who, Preaching Peace, does practice Continence; Whose pious life's a proof he does believe, Mysterious Truths, which no …

Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.

The goodness, the sympathy, the self-denial of the nun, of the monk, all come from the mother-instinct, the father-instinct - all were produced by human affect…