Don't set out to teach theism from your natural history... You spoil both.

We wake from one dream into another dream.

There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.

This valley is the only place that comes up to the brag about it, and exceeds it.

Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust in another mouth.

Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself, numerous and dignified enough to rank with other estates in the realm; and where fame and secular promotion are to be had for study, and in a direction which has the unanimous respect of all cultivated nations.

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.