The fair breeze blew, The white foam flew, And the forrow followed free. We were the first to ever burst into the silent sea.

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

My eyes make pictures when they are shut.

Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.

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

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.