As for Republicanism, no analogy could be found for it upon the face of the earth—unless we except the case of the "prairie dogs," an exception which seems to demonstrate, if anything, that democracy is a very admirable form of government—for dogs.

If the propositions of this Discourse are tenable, the "state of progressive collapse" is precisely that state in which alone we are warranted in considering All Things.

It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain, but, once conceived, it haunted me day and night.

To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.

A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.