A fly is as untamable as a hyena.

The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.

If a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes distorted and not itself but falsehood.

Natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds. The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals.

Men have come to speak of the revelation as somewhat long ago given and done, as if God were dead. The injury to faith throttles the preacher; and the goodliest of institutions becomes an uncertain and inarticulate voice.