A savage place! As holy and enchanted/As e'er beneath the waning moon was haunted/By woman wailing for her Demon Lover!

Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation

A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.

The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.

When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.

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.