The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.

A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

If you wish to assured of the truth of Christianity, try it. Believe, and if thy belief be right, that insight which gradually transmutes faith into knowledge will be the reward of thy belief.

What! Did Sir W[alter] R[aleigh] believe that a male and female ounce (and, if so, why not two tigers and lions, etc?) would have produced, in a course of generations, a cat, or a cat a lion? This is Darwinizing with a vengeance.

About, about, in reel and rout the death fires danced at night.

The form of truth will bear exposure, as well as that of beauty herself.