The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.

To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.

A woman in a single state may be happy and may be miserable; but most happy, most miserable, these are epithets belonging to a wife.

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

That agony returns; And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Is duty a mere sport, or an employ! Life an entrusted talent or a toy!