Knowledge, or more expressively truth,--for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence,--truth is an ideal whole.
Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.
Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands.
Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.
Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom.
A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools.