And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.
Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge...
All nature seems at work.
And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.
The bride hath paced into the hall, Red as a rose is she.
Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.
Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.
A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions.
A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of their seats.
Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.
Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.
As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
It is a flat’ning Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say.
An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol.
In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration.
Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of action – that the end will sanction any means.
How well he fell asleepl Like some proud river, widening toward the sea; Calmly and grandly, silently and deep, Life joined eternity.
Mr. Lyell’s system of geology is just half the truth, and no more. He affirms a great deal that is true, and he denies a great deal which is equally true; which is the general characteristic of all systems not embracing the whole truth.