"Be it said, that though I had felt such a strong repugnance to his smoking in the bed the night before, yet see how elastic our stiff...

"Because truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is...

"I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody's religious obligations, never mind how comical, and could not find it in my heart to...

"For what is man that he should live out the lifetime of his God?" Musing: This is the last of Father Mapple's sermon and more words...

"Woe to him who seeks to please rather than to appall! Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness! Woe to him who, in this...

"But all the things that God would have us do are hard for us to do—remember that—and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavors to...

"Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking that thick...

"But Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope." Musing: Holy crap-...

"How it is that we still refuse to be comforted for those who we nevertheless maintain are dwelling in unspeakable bliss; why do all the...

"Oh! ye whose dead lie buried beneath the green grass; who standing among flowers can say- here, here lies my beloved; ye know not the...