About, about, in reel and rout the death fires danced at night.

Contempt is egotism in ill- humor.

I dislike the frequent use of the word virtue, instead of righteousness, in the pulpit; in prayer or preaching before a Christian community, it sounds too much like pagan philosophy.

In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration.

The book of Job is pure Arab poetry of the highest and most antique cast.

The history of all the world tells us that immoral means will ever intercept good ends.

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