Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.

Wag the world how it will, Leaves must be green in Spring.

Is he mad? Anyway there's something on his mind, as sure as there must be something on a deck when it cracks.

Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.

He says NO! In thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.

The profound calm which only apparently precedes and prophesies of the storm, is perhaps more awful than the storm itself; for indeed, the calm is but the wrapper and envelop of the storm, and contains it in itself, as the seemingly harmless rifle holds the fatal powder, and the ball, and the explosion.

Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.