Deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
Don't set out to teach theism from your natural history... You spoil both.
A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his forces as tolame him; a defect pays him revenues on the other side.
Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it will end.