He that is overcautious will accomplish little.

Illusion is brief, but repentance is long.

The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows.

When the gods were more manlike, Men were more godlike.

Deaf rage that hears no leader.

Speech is always bolder than action.

Each state of the human mind has some parable in the physical creation by which it is shadowed forth; nor is it only artists and poets, but even the most abstract thinkers that have drawn from this source. Lively activity we name fire; time is a stream that rolls on, sweeping all before it; eternity is a circle; a mystery is hid in midnight gloom, and truth dwells in the sun. Nay, I begin to believe that even the future destiny of the human race is prefigured in the dark oracular utterances of bodily creation.