A religion of just being kind would be a pretty good religion, don't you think so?

The Lectures embraced in this volume, were written for the pulpit, in the usual manner of preparation for such labor, without any expectation of their appearing in print.

The lessons herein taught are such as cannot be learned too early, nor dwelt on too long or too often, by those who are engaged in the active and all-absorbing duties of life.

How can I make life yield its fullest and best? How can I know the true secret of power?

The Devil's Dictionary was begun in a weekly paper in 1881, and was continued in a desultory way at long intervals until 1906.

Of all the problems which the alert and curious mind of modern man is considering, none occupies him more than that of the relations of the sexes.

"Persuasion" is a great literary work, and, to my mind, Jane Austen's finest book. This was her final completed novel before her death and was written in 1816 and was published posthumously in 1818. The title was not chosen by Jane Austen.
"Jane Austen's Persuasion focuses on the regret and loneliness of Anne Elliot, who had rejected a proposal of marriage from the one man she truly loved.