Many actions, like the Rhone, have two sources,--one pure, the other impure.

How deeply rooted must unbelief be in our hearts when we are surprised to find our prayers answered.

The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?

What a type of happy family is the family of the Sun! With what order, with what harmony, with what blessed peace, do his children the planets move around him, shining with light which they drink in from their parent's in at once upon him and on one another!

I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.

They who boast of their tolerance merely give others leave to be as careless about religion as they are themselves. A walrus might as well pride itself on its endurance of cold.

Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead.