From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it. That the starry vault shall surcharge the heart with all rapturous marvelings, is only because we ourselves are greater miracles, and superber trophies than all the stars in universal space.

The idea of Jehovah was born here... Out of the rude elements of the insignificant thoughts thoughts that are in all men, they reared the transcendent conception of a God.

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

This divineness had that in it which, though commanding worship, at the same time enforced a certain nameless terror.

Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.

Madman! Look through my eyes if thou hast none of thine own.

Those of us who always abhorred slavery as an atheistical iniquity, gladly we join in the exulting chorus of humanity over its downfall.