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.

And I fell violently on my face.

Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries

The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception.

Odors have an altogether peculiar force, in affecting us through association; a force differing essentially from that of objects addressing the touch, the taste, the sight or the hearing.

Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge

There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust.