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

My eyes make pictures when they are shut.

Mr. Lyell's system of geology is just half the truth, and no more. He affirms a great deal that is true, and he denies a great deal which is equally true; which is the general characteristic of all systems not embracing the whole truth.

Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.

Often do the spirits stride on before the event; and in today already walks tomorrow.

In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration.

I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book.