Each is liable to panic, which is exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination. Knowledge is the encourager, knowledge that takes fear out of the heart, knowledge and use, which is knowledge in practice. They can conquer who believe they can. It is he who has done the deed once who does not shrink from attempting again.

The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.

Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world.

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.

But what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic, and are not foreign, but have a law which is also the law of the human mind?

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

Thought dissolves the material universe by carrying the mind up into a sphere where all is plastic.