Whenever the pulpit is usurped by a formalist, then is the worshipper defrauded and disconsolate.

Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.

True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.

The mind is a finer body, and resumes its functions of feeding, digesting, absorbing, excluding, and generating, in a new and ethereal element. Here, in the brain, is all the process of alimentation repeated, in the acquiring, comparing, digesting, and assimilating of experience. Here again is the mystery of generation repeated.

Let us advance on Chaos and the Dark

Look out into the July night, and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as the bonfires of the meadow-flies. Yet the powers of numbers cannot compute its enormous age,—lasting as space and time,—embosomed in time and space.

Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.