If you have never been at sea in a heavy gale, you can form no idea of the confusion of mind occasioned by wind and spry together. They blind, deafen, and strangle you, and take away all power of action or reflection.

And all I loved, I loved alone.

I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.

If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

I seemed to be upon the verge of comprehension, without the power to comprehend as men, at time, find themselves upon the brink of rememberance, without being able, in the end, to remember.

Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.