Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.

There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!

With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.

It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result of chance rather than of contemplation, and of accident rather than of design.

No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.

Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects.

Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.