The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part, in using a word in one sense in all the premises, and in another sense in the conclusion.

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

How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day!

The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.

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

The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total concentration of the faculties. The great mass of worldly men and of learned men are absolutely incapable of prayer.

I understood that you would take the Human Race in the concrete, have exploded the absurd notion of Pope's Essay on Man, [Erasmus] Darwin, and all the countless Believers-even (strange to say) among Xtians-of Man's having progressed from an Ouran Outang state-so contrary to all History, to all Religion, nay, to all Possibility-to have affirmed a Fall in some sense.