The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership.

He wanders, like a day-appearing dream, Through the dim wildernesses of the mind; Through desert woods and tracts, which seem Like ocean, homeless, boundless, unconfined.

It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery.

Deep truth is imageless.

The advocates of literal interpretation have been the most efficacious enemies of those doctrines whose nature they profess to venerate.

Jesus Christ represented God as the principle of all good, the source of all happiness, the wise and benevolent Creator and Preserver of all living things. But the interpreters of his doctrines have confounded the good and the evil principle.

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.