Memory, bosom-spring of joy.
He holds him with his glittering eye, And listens like a three years' child.
Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable lamp of life.
An undevout poet is an impossibility.
Whenever philosophy has taken into its plan religion, it has ended in skepticism; and whenever religion excludes philosophy, or the spirit of free inquiry, it leads to willful blindness and superstition.
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.