In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed-- But a waking dream of life and light Hath left me broken-hearted.

We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal

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

The realities of the world affected me as visions, and as visions only, while the wild ideas of the land of dreams became, in turn,—not the material of my every-day existence--but in very deed that existence utterly and solely in itself.

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

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

Life is for the strong, to be lived by the strong and if need be, taken by the strong. The weak were put on earth to give the strong pleasure.