Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science.

The President proclaims war, and those Senators who dissent are not those who know better, but those who can afford to...Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

Youth is everywhere in place.

The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the geological structure of the globe. As our soils and rocks lie in strata, concentric strata, so do all men's thinkings run laterally, never vertically.

Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke his powers of combination, and he put on terror and victory as a robe.

The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb.

Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements?