A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.

It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some single irradiating word.

A tender sadness drops upon my soul, like the soft twilight dropping on the world.

God has thickly strewn infinity with grandeur.

In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October.

The globe has been circumnavigated, but no man ever yet has; you may survey a kingdom and note the result in maps, but all the savants in the world could not produce a reliable map of the poorest human personality.

Every day travels toward death; the last only arrives at it.