Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature.
The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite.
The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest.
Providence has a wild, rough, incalculable road to its end, and it is of no use to try to whitewash its huge, mixed instrumentalities, or to dress up that terrific benefactor in a clean shirt and white neckcloth of a student in divinity.
Each of us sees in others what we carry in our own hearts.
In certain men digestion and sex absorb the vital force, and the stronger these are, the individual is so much weaker. The more ofthese drones perish, the better for the hive.