I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in every year.

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree to its leaves.

The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. "Thou shalt not" is their characteristic formula.

You do not believe, you only believe that you believe.

All Science is necessarily prophetic, so truly so, that the power of prophecy is the test, the infallible criterion, by which any presumed Science is ascertained to be actually & verily science. The Ptolemaic Astronomy was barely able to prognosticate a lunar eclipse; with Kepler and Newton came Science and Prophecy.

Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.