[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!

When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.

Often do the spirits stride on before the event; and in today already walks tomorrow.

Intellect really exists in its products; its kingdom is here.

This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil.

It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation.

Health is a great blessing--competence obtained by honorable industry is a great blessing--and a great blessing it is to have kind, faithful, and loving friends and relatives; but, that the greatest of all blessings, as it is the most ennobling of all privileges, is to be indeed a Christian.