Let us advance on Chaos and the Dark

Eyes are bold as lions,--roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages. They wait for no introduction; they are no Englishmen; ask no leave of age or rank; they respect neither property nor riches, neither learning nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude, and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time. What inundation of life and thought is discharged from one soul into another through them!

Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.

Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for

When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.

I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant itself on the ground, before it vaults overthe moon. I wish it to be a little of a citizen, before it is quite a cherub.

Tart, cathartic virtue.