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It Is Wonderful How Shy Even Liberal Ministers Generally Are About Trusting People With The Plain Truth Concerning Their Religion. They Want To Veil It In A Supernatural Haze. They Are Very Reluctant To Part With The Old Idea That God Has Given To Jews And Christians A Peculiar Monopoly Of Truth. It Is A Selfish View Of God's Government Of The World, And It Is Time That We Knew Enough To Outgrow It.

I Do Not Know How The Affair At Canterbury Is Generally Considered; But I Have Heard Individuals Of All Parties And All Opinions Speak Of It And Never Without Merriment Or Indignation. Fifty Years Hence, The Black Laws Of Connecticut Will Be A Greater Source Of Amusement To The Antiquarian, Than Her Famous Blue Laws.

Happiness Consists Not In Having Much, But In Wanting No More Than You Have.

Over The River And Through The Wood, To Grandfather's House We Go; The Horse Knows The Way To Carry The Sleigh, Through The White And Drifted Snow.

Affectation Is Fond Of Making A Greater Show Than Reality. ... Nature And Truth Have Never Learned To Blow The Trumpet, And Never Will.