He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

I shall attack Chemistry, like a Shark.

Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.

Whenever philosophy has taken into its plan religion, it has ended in skepticism; and whenever religion excludes philosophy, or the spirit of free inquiry, it leads to willful blindness and superstition.

And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

A State, in idea, is the opposite of a Church. A State regards classes, and not individuals; and it estimates classes, not by internal merit, but external accidents, as property, birth, etc. But a church does the reverse of this, and disregards all external accidents, and looks at men as individual persons, allowing no gradations of ranks, but such as greater or less wisdom, learning, and holiness ought to confer. A Church is, therefore, in idea, the only pure democracy.

So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.