To leave no interval between the sentence and the fulfillment of it doth beseem God only, the Immutable!

Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

I shall attack Chemistry, like a Shark.

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

What! Did Sir W[alter] R[aleigh] believe that a male and female ounce (and, if so, why not two tigers and lions, etc?) would have produced, in a course of generations, a cat, or a cat a lion? This is Darwinizing with a vengeance.

False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical.

You may depend upon it, religion is, in its essence, the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It will alone gentilize, if unmixed with cant; and I know nothing else that will, alone. Certainly not the army, which is thought to be the grand embellisher of manners.