To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.

Every human feeling is greater and larger than its exciting cause-a proof, I think, that man is designed for a higher state of existence.

Heart-chilling superstition! thou canst glaze even Pity's eye with her own frozen tear.

[Coleridge] selected an instance of what was called the sublime, in DARWIN, who imagined the creation of the universe to have taken place in a moment, by the explosion of a mass of matter in the womb, or centre of space. In one and the same instant of time, suns and planets shot into systems in every direction, and filled and spangled the illimitable void! He asserted this to be an intolerable degradation -referring, as it were, all the beauty and harmony of nature to something like the bursting of a barrel of gunpowder! that spit its combustible materials into a pock-freckled creation!

I shall attack Chemistry, like a Shark.

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

We are now Courts of equity, and must decide the thing according to all the rights.