He gives us the very quintessence of perception,-the clearly crystalized precipitation of all that is most precious in the ferment of impression after the impertinent and obtrusive particulars have evaporated from the memory.

Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us.

Among the lessons taught by the French revolution, there is none sadder or more striking than this--that you may make everything else out of the passions of men except a political system that will work, and that there is nothing so pitilessly and unconsciously cruel as sincerity formulated into dogma.

Be He nowhere else, God is in all that liberates and lifts, in all that humbles, sweetens, and consoles.

I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.

At the devil's booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.

In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.