Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

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.

In for ever knowing, we are for ever blessed; but to know all were the curse of a fiend

I was forced to fall back upon the unsatisfactory conclusion, that while, beyond doubt, there are combinations of very simple natural objects which have the power of thus affecting us, still the analysis of this power lies among considerations beyond our depth. It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene, of the details of the picture, would be sufficient to modify, or perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful impression.

The goodness of your true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.