From a proud tower in the town, Death looks gigantically down.

How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

[The daguerreotype] itself must undoubtedly be regarded as the most important, and perhaps the most extraordinary triumph of modern science.

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.

...for her whom in life thou dids't abhor, in death thou shalt adore

The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis. We appreciate them only in their effects. We know of them, among other things, that they are always to their possessor, when inordinately possessed, a source of the liveliest enjoyment.