If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.

Her skin was white as leprosy.

Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

He knows well the evening star, and once when he awoke, in a most distressful mood (some inward pain had made up that strange thing, an infant's dream), I hurried with him to our orchard plot, and he beheld the moon, and hushed at once. Suspends his sobs and laughs most silently. While his fair eyes, that swam with undropped tears, did glitter in the yellow moonbeam.

I dislike the frequent use of the word virtue, instead of righteousness, in the pulpit; in prayer or preaching before a Christian community, it sounds too much like pagan philosophy.

What is one man's gain is another's loss.