A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.

Terror itself, when once grown transcendental, becomes a kind of courage; as frost sufficiently intense, according to the poet Milton, will burn.

Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to.

Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film.

A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.

There are depths in man that go to the lowest hell, and heights that reach the highest heaven, for are not both heaven and hell made out of him, everlasting miracle and mystery that he is.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.