The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.

Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced; it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself.

Is there no God, then, but at best an absentee God, sitting idle, ever since the first Sabbath, at the outside of his Universe?

A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.

The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."

A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.

Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.