But we have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts; whereof I take this that you call love to be... a sect or scion.... It is merely a lust of the blood and a permission of the will.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The multiplication of individual sects should not fool us: the important point is that the whole of America is preoccupied with th...e sect as a moral institution, with its immediate demand for beatification, its material efficacity, its compulsion for justification, and doubtless also with its madness and frenzy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, an...d end in loving himself better than all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Each religious sect has its own physiognomy. The Methodists have acquired a face; the Quakers, a face; the nuns, a face. An Englis...hman will pick out a dissenter by his manners.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I detest the thought of him With his ten children under ten years old.... I hate his wretched little Racker Sect, All's ever I heard of it, which isn't much.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »