Fate is unpenetrated causes.

Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.

Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

The laws of light and of heat translate each other;-so do the laws of sound and colour; and so galvanism, electricity and magnetism are varied forms of this selfsame energy.

Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance.

If we live truly, we shall see truly. It is as easy for the strong man to be strong, as it is for the weak to be weak.

Steam was till the other day the devil which we dreaded. Every pot made by any human potter or brazier had a hole in its cover, to let off the enemy, lest he should lift pot and roof and carry the house away.