Alone, Alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never saint took pity on My soul in agony

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.

A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.

To doubt has more of faith ... than that blank negation of all such thoughts and feelings which is the lot of the herd of church-and-meeting trotters.

My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.

A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear, A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet or relief, In word, or sigh, or tear.

Some persons have contended that mathematics ought to be taught by making the illustrations obvious to the senses. Nothing can be more absurd or injurious: it ought to be our never-ceasing effort to make people think, not feel.