The moving moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide: Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside.

Her skin was white as leprosy.

Mr. Lyell's system of geology is just half the truth, and no more. He affirms a great deal that is true, and he denies a great deal which is equally true; which is the general characteristic of all systems not embracing the whole truth.

The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object.

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

Call not that man wretched, who whatever else he suffers as to pain inflicted, or pleasure denied, has a child for whom he hopes and on whom he doats.

Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.