Every human feeling is greater and larger than its exciting cause-a proof, I think, that man is designed for a higher state of existence.

There is no slight danger from general ignorance; and the only choice which Providence has graciously left to a vicious government is either to fall by the people, if they are suffered to become enlightened, or with them, if they are kept enslaved and ignorant.

How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day!

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

The moving moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide: Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside.

The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed.

As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.