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

We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to what we think it ought to be.

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

Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man

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.

Too soon did the doctors of the church forget that the heart--the moral nature--was the beginning and the end, and that truth, knowledge, and insight were comprehended in its expansion.

O it is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies, To make the shifting clouds be what you please.