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

To leave no interval between the sentence and the fulfillment of it doth beseem God only, the Immutable!

The fair breeze blew, The white foam flew, And the forrow followed free. We were the first to ever burst into the silent sea.

[Coleridge] selected an instance of what was called the sublime, in DARWIN, who imagined the creation of the universe to have taken place in a moment, by the explosion of a mass of matter in the womb, or centre of space. In one and the same instant of time, suns and planets shot into systems in every direction, and filled and spangled the illimitable void! He asserted this to be an intolerable degradation -referring, as it were, all the beauty and harmony of nature to something like the bursting of a barrel of gunpowder! that spit its combustible materials into a pock-freckled creation!

The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

I must reject fluids and ethers of all kinds, magnetical, electrical, and universal, to whatever quintessential thinness they may be treble distilled, and as it were super-substantiated.