Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

The gross feeder is a man in the larva state; and there are whole nations in that condition, nations without fancy or imagination,whose vast abdomens betray them.

In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.

The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.

The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bone.