The cry of the Little Peoples goes up to God in vain, / For the world is given over to the cruel sons of Cain.

Stay the course, light a star,
Change the world where'er you are.

Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.

If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame their own mismanagement, for the world is with them as it has never been before, and all sensible fathers and mothers know it.

It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction.

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.