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

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.

There is nothing insignificant-nothing.

The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.

You may depend upon it, religion is, in its essence, the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It will alone gentilize, if unmixed with cant; and I know nothing else that will, alone. Certainly not the army, which is thought to be the grand embellisher of manners.

The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

There is small chance of truth at the goal, where there is not childlike humility at the starting-post.