No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!

Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.

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

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

The philosopher is he to whom the highest has descended, and the lowest has mounted up; who is the equal and kindly brother of all.

A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort.

To the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant