That single thought is enough. The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to an uncontrollable longing, and the longing (to the deep regret and mortification of the speaker, and in defiance of all consequences,) is indulged.

I have no words alas! to tell the loveliness of loving well

The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind.

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.

The enormous multiplication of books in every branch of knowledge is one of the greatest evils of this age, since it presents one of the most serious obstacles to the acquisition of correct information by throwing in the reader's way piles of lumber in which he must painfully grope for the scraps of useful matter, peradventure interspersed.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.