The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her.

All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.

Oh invisible, we view thee, O world intangible, we touch thee, o world unknowable, we know thee.

A dog, I will maintain, is a very tolerable judge of beauty, as appears from the fact that any liberally educated dog does, in a general way, prefer a woman to a man.

Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.

An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.

Agnosticism is the everlasting perhaps.