Delight,--top-gallant delight is to him, who acknowledges no law or lord, but the Lord his God, and is only a patriot to heaven.

It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie.

At length I fell asleep, with the volume in my hand; and never slept so sound before

Whatever my fate, I'll go to it laughing.

I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody's religious obligations, no matter how comical.

It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.

You must have plenty of sea-room to tell the truth in.