Contempt is egotism in ill- humor.
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning too.
Sublimity is Hebrew by birth.
Conscience is the pulse of reason
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.