It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him.
Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
He says NO! In thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.
Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe.
In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.
All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.