In idleness there is a perpetual despair.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

We arc the miracle of miracles, the great inscrutable mystery of God.

That great mystery of TIME, were there no other; the illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean tide, on which we and all the Universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb,-for we have no word to speak about it.