The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.

How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father's or mother's life?

A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If a singer sing from a sense of duty or from seeing no way to escape,I had rather have none. Those only can sleep who do not care to sleep; and those only write or speak best who do not too much respect the writing or the speaking.

Science was false by being unpoetical. It assumed to explain a reptile or a mollusk, and isolated it-which is hunting for life in graveyards. Reptile or mollusk or man or angel only exists in system, in relation.

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

Friends are like spaghetti, they should stick together. The only way to have a friend is to be one.

If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge.