Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare.

[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!

An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol.

That saints will aid if men will call; For the blue sky bends over all!

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.

For compassion a human heart suffices, but for full and adequate sympathy, with joy, an angel's only.